On 5/9/01 11:17 AM, I wrote:
> When I run a copy of a script Dan Crevier wrote, DB Stats, it tells me I
> have 1072 messages in my database. It scans down the folder tree to get
> this count, and I believe it is accurate.
>
> When I do an Advanced Find, the status line at the bottom reports that it
> is searching through 4567 messages--and it takes long enough that I
> believe it.
>
Steve Friesen contacted me off list and made a suggestion which I followed
up on. Here's what I found:
His message seemed to suggest I do an advanced
find in some way that would find nearly everything, so I did one on "all
folders" with subject "does not contain q". It uncovered the problem,
although it was not what Steve thought it might be.
Some time ago, I had set up a News account to look at five lists on the
Microsoft public news server, particularly the ones regarding Office
software and VBA. I had almost forgotten they were there because the
particular issue I was investigating is long over. However, apparently,
those lists were being included in every Advanced Find operation I was doing
on "messages." That was the extra 3000+ messages!!
Question 1: Shouldn't there be an option to include/exclude newsgroups?
Perhaps you can set a criterion for the search that would do that, but I
don't see one!
Steve replied:
> There is no easy way to exclude news messages currently. However you can
> Create a news rule to set the category of all news messages to a category you
> call �News� then in your custom searches or advanced fine add �Category is
> not �News��.
That's very unsatisfactory because it still means that the find operation
has to examine every news message as part of the search. I think it would be
evident that some times, probably most times, people want to search mail
without news or news without mail, and rarely both at once. Entourage should
add this ability.
Question 2: How does one delete a newsgroup after subscribing to it? I could
not find any way to do it.
Steve did not answer this question. Does anyone else know the answer? SURELY
there is some simple way to do this?
Wanting just to get rid of all the newsgroups, I decided the only way was to
delete the news account. So I did so. Entourage ran a fairly long time, a
minute or two, and then quit with an Error 2.
When I restarted and launched Entourage again, things looked OK. The news
account was gone. My message count (as shown in the footer of Advanced Find)
was down to 1076, which was what it should have been all along.
Question 3: Do I need to do a rebuild, since <something> caused that Error 2
crash?
Steve didn't know but suggested I do a rebuild just in case; I will do so,
but have not had any additional problems since the crash.
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