On 7/17/01 12:08 AM, Allen Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On or near 7/16/01 8:57 PM, Bryan Harris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
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>>> Jim�s description of the �slow-down� is consistent with my symptoms.
>>> Speaking of a lack of speed, I�m using a G3 Powerbook with OS 9.04. Are
>>> there any effective ways to speed it up?
>
> Other ideas: Archive all but the last month or so of messages with an
> archiving package, and trim the database down to 1000 messages or so.
> Rebuild after doing so to compress. Keeping a trim database, I have never
> experienced a slowdown in Entourage on my 300 MHz iBook. I use John
> Carlsen's eMessage Archiver to archive to FileMaker. Other options are
> available, even simply dragging folders to the desktop, then deleting them
> from Entourage.
Bryan and Allen are giving great general advice, that will produce a cleaner
and quicker Entourage, but I sense this problem has little to do with
database size, given that the last time it happened to me several days ago
was *after* I had trimmed more than 4000 emails from the database and
completed a regular rebuild. It's worth mentioning that the problem crops
up rarely for me any more, the last time it happened was the first in
several months. The database getting larger and larger contributes to a
general slowdown, especially with searches or certain custom views, this
problem happens quickly and the app becomes considerably slower when it
does, a magnitude of change as it were. I don't know about Mac, but I run
quite a few third party tools, this is perhaps related to the slowdown, but
most of these third party items (like OneClick, Default Folder, URL Manager
Pro and a host of others) greatly contribute to my productivity so I would
be reluctant to run without any of them for any length of time.
This is but one of several "glitches" I experience in Entourage, along with
the cursor weirdness (helped by SR1 but not eradicated), the fact that I
can't resize rightmost columns in the preview pane unless I move the window
off the screen to the left, having to be careful where the cursor is in an
email when changing the account on a completed email that uses signatures so
that I don't lose half or more of the email when the sig is inserted, and a
few other minor ones that escape me at the moment. However, overall the
product is so well done that I consider these glitches as tolerable and now
know what to do to get around them. The "slowness thing" (sorry for the
technical term) is the worst of the lot though and I think at least bears
mentioning so that others know they aren't alone when it happens to them and
so the developers are aware.
Jim Baskins
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