The two programs are curiously different. Outlook will allow multiple .pst files and will even let you specify the location for the .pst file. Unfortunately, Entourage only has one database file and you have to keep it at the required location.
Some Entourage users create a new identity annually so they can get a new database and switch between identities to view old email. I think this method would be a tough sell for non-geek users. You can export Entourage archive files (.rge), but to view the contents of an rge you have to import the files back into Entourage and that dumps everything back into the database. This ain't useful. I don't know what MS was thinking. The .rge files are actually packages that can be cracked open. Inside the rge emails are stored in mbox format. MS seems to be dancing all around doing the right thing, but refusing to do the right thing. >Dunno about Entourage at all, but Outlook provided for an "archive" .pst >file as well as the active .pst file. Then one would keep the active .pst >file small and back it up often, but back up the archive .pst file only >after an archive process had been run (say once a week or whatever). One >could even keep more than one archive .pst file, so that they didn't get >"too big" as well. Say, start a new archive .pst file at the beginning of >a new calendar year. The archive .pst file was created manually on one of >the Outlook menus, and then would appear as additional mailboxes in the >left pane of the outlook dialog. Individual messages were moved to the >archive .pst file by drag/dropping them from a mailbox in the active .pst >file to a mailbox in the archive .pst file. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
