Office for Mac 2011 does not start, how do I repair the database?

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Published on 2010-10-28T08:16:11Z Indexed on 2013/06/25 4:24 UTC
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After a TimeMachine restore; Office 2011 is having kittens over permissions it would seem. Having attempted a 'repair' out of Disk Utility, am still seeing:

there is a problem with the Office database

upon startup, after which Word/Excel work without issues.

Outlook on the other hand won't even start. Given the obvious message here "You do not have write access to the Outlook application folder" – where is the DB located to check?

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