On or near 11/17/00 2:22 PM, Raj Nayak at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm new to the list-- please excuse me if I'm being redundant, or if there's
> an FAQ I can find somewhere, and please feel free to reply directly to save
> the list from my questions...
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> I love Entourage, and have used it for about
> a month now, but I have a few qualms with it, and I'm trying to figure out
> if maybe there are some settings I can change to fix things...
>
> (1) The program is SLOW when dealing with anything but e-mail. Launching
> the program takes upwards of 30 seconds. Just pulling up the calendar
> results in a 15-second lag, and creating a "New Task" or a "New Note" is
> always a five-second wait. I'm running on a Pismo Powerbook (400Mhz), 320MB
> of RAM (45 going to Entourage).
There is no way it should take that kind of time. I use an iBook with only
300 MHz, and new Task and new Note are nearly instantaneous. Opening
Entourage isn't blindly fast, but certainly within the limits of tolerance,
maybe ten to fifteen seconds. I have only 15 MB of RAM allocated to
Entourage.
> I do have a large number of
> messages/contacts/appointments/etc. (my user folder takes up 133 megs
> total).
> If the program's speed (or lack thereof) is solely attributable to
> my overgrown database, is there a way to "archive" things like calendar
> appointments, etc, into a usable (and searchable) format (in case I need to
> look back in time for an alibi, etc.)? What about e-mail? I enjoy the
> ability to search back through five years of e-mail (and use it surprisingly
> frequently), but is there a way I can "archive" this into a separate
> database to speed things up in the everyday uses?
>
My identity folder is only about 15.5 MB, so that could be your problem. I
don't know. I try to keep my database trim to keep search times (of recent
messages) down to reasonable limits. I archive into FileMaker using a (still
in beta) scripting archive package by John Carlsen called eMessage Archiver.
I like Carlsen's approach because he lets you set up what folders you want
archived, what age of messages at which to archive, and which to exclude
from archiving by flag, priority, and some status flags. He also has a
similar package that archives to HyperCard stacks (you can get HyperCard
Player for free from Apple). There are other archive packages available:
another one to FileMaker ported from Emailer via Outlook Express, by Dan
Crevier; Email Archiver, which exports messages to text files in Finder
folders, where you can index them with Sherlock.
On the other hand, I've heard several people on this list who have huge
databases in Entourage with no complaints about speed.
I like archiving to FileMaker because of the rapid and flexible searching by
various fields and combinations of fields.
> (2) I'm often annoyed by the Command-backspace key combo that likes to
> delete whole messages/notes/tasks instead of words (as in Word). I've lost
> several e-mails by hitting Command-delete to delete the last word, but
> losing whole messages instead... Is there a way that I can disable this
> keystroke? Can ResEdit clear this up for me, perhaps? Is it still safe to
> use ResEdit nowadays?
>
To protect yourself, go into Preferences, General, Notification and check
"Notification on deleting". It will ask for confirmation before deleting. If
you have OneClick, you could define Cmd-Delete to do something else or to do
nothing, effectively disabling it. You could even define it to delete the
last word, with a little clever scripting.
--
Peace,
Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson
A Mac family since 1984
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