On 7/1/02 5:18 pm, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/7/02 2:13 AM, "Guy Brooker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> And you also need to do a rebuild in the >>> exporting identity (OE) before beginning all this - any corruption there, >>> which might not be very evident to you - will mess up the import process. >>> Unfortunately, the rebuild engine in OE is not as good as in Entourage, so >>> badly corrupted identities may possibly not get fixed. Fortunately, it >>> doesn't sound as if your identity was badly corrupted, if at all. >> >> I did try a rebuild of the OE database, but it gave up after two hours, as >> it wanted more disk space on the partition with the OE Identity - it only >> had one GB free.... > > Well, there are you then. That's why you had problems - you had a corrupt OE > database. The "no disk space" may have been an incorrect error description - > it usually is. But these rebuilds do need as much free space as the original > file size, and often they need a certain amount of it as contiguous space, > and then the computer needs a certain amount for Virtual Memory (and as you > pointed out, that could be a large, indeterminate amount in OS X). Hi Paul, Thanks for your mail, however I might have misled you on my configuration. My OS 9 partition had 1 GB free space, and contained my OE e-mail DB. This may have been just too short for a duplicate of the OE mail database which was is certainly why the rebuild failed. I was running OE in the Classic environment when trying a rebuild. Unfortunately it didn't check the available disk space before starting, nor warn me to check manually. I must say it never occurred to me to check the disk space before running - OK so now I've learnt the lesson. My OS X partition, which had my new Entourage X DB had many (>3) gigabytes of free space, so this should definitely not be the cause of the error during Entourage import. Furthermore just running the import once caused a hard crash of Entourage. Then running the import a second time worked perfectly, with no change to available disk space (actually it's less due to the partial Entourage DB created on the first run). Deleting the Entourage X DB and trying again resulted in exactly the same problem. If Entourage is able to import everything the second time, then surely it can't be a problem due to disk space or a corrupt OE database... Cheers Guy -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
