For the third time in a year and a half I was unable to open Outlook getting a message that my identity needed to be rebuilt. 
The rebuild failed and I had to piece together various methods gleaned from these forums and elsewhere on the net to get a semblance of recovery. 
My question is: What causes this Identity corruption? What can I do to avoid it? 
I have seen many work arounds to fix but nothing to indicate a cause.  
Thanks
hi Everyone,

I am using Mac OS X and Outlook 2011 on a MacBook Air and since this morning my outlook freezes when i open it, after about 3-5 seconds. No idea why and nothing i installed yesterday. I have a long and detailed report but it is to long to post here. Hope you can advise!

Thanks.

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I have been using mac mail and now have outlook for mac and want to move my mail to outlook. I have  been able to import my contacts but not my mail
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i installed office 2011 on my wife's mac. it keeps hanging up some sync services problem and email downloads are mind numbingly slow. she's happy with entourage so i want to remove outlook. how do i uninstall outlook?
Original Title: Office for Mac 2011 and Google apps account
I just installed Office for Mac 2011 and synced my corporate google apps account into Outlook. When I send an email, after it is sent and in my sent folder, down below next to connected appears "sync pending for this folder" After a few minutes, it appears a second email is sent and in my sent folder. How do rectify this?
Outlook will not open.  “This identity cannot be opened with this version of Outlook” .  Tried rebuild of database.  Updated to 14.0.0.  Updater says I am up to date on all versions.  I had a trial version on my Mac.  I deleted it then installed from disk.
Every few days Outlook crashes and makes me rebuild my database.

How do I stop this from happening?

I have three accounts feeding into Outlook. One from Hotmail, one from Network Solutions and one from Gmail (which I use to save messages and is quite large with a hundred folders).

This is the error message I keep getting:

Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Date/Time: 2012-10-10 16:53:06 +0000
Application Name: Microsoft Outlook
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Outlook
Application Signature: OPIM
Application Version: 14.2.4.120824
Crashed Module Name: unknown
Crashed Module Version: unknown
Crashed Module Offset: unknown
Blame Module Name: unknown
Blame Module Version: unknown
Blame Module Offset: unknown
Application LCID: 1033
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409
Crashed thread: 0
Reference:  http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/160/p/71382/266109.aspx#266109

Using Office365, one of my users has mac outlook 2011, windows outlook 2010, and obviously OWA.

She has a distribution group where she's the only member, and she has SendAs privilege (I assigned via powershell). In outlook 2010 and OWA, she specifies the From, selects the distribution list from GAL, and sends. From that point onward, it always appears in the From drop-down.

On Mac Outlook 2011, the From drop-down only lets her specify another account on her computer; doesn't seem to know about any SendAs permission, doesn't seem to give her the ability to SendAs another email address from the GAL.

Is there something we're missing? Or is it just not supported?

We tried waiting a few days, deleting and recreating the account from Mac Outlook 2011, waiting a few more days... Still nothing.
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