On 1/30/02 7:29 AM, "Greg Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two questions: how big is your database file, and do you have enough disk > space where your MUD folder is to make a copy of it? At its largest, my database was 97 MB, and I have many GB available on my drive. > Maybe you should save ALL of your messages as mbox files and then create a > whole new identity with a fresh database, or wipe out your current entourage > and MUD and reinstall a clean one. Then try to import the messages into a > completely clean identity. OUCH!!!! > One final thought about the database. Someone mentioned this in another > thread. If you throw out or overwrite the MUD file by copying a database > into it, you should make sure the background application "microsoft database > daemon" is not running. This loads automatically when you login or startup > OS X. You can disable it in the OS X System Prefs/Login/Startup Items and > restart. Just remember to set it back up after you are done copying. Or even > easier, if you are unix savy at all, go into your terminal, find the process > number for this app (type 'ps aux' to list all processes running) and kill > it (type 'kill -9 process#'). Now THAT sounds interesting. However, I must have created a dozen new databases in the last several days trying to figure this out, and it always APPEARS that the new one opens correctly. I'll see how others weigh in on this suggestion before pretending I know ANYTHING about command line! -- 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/>
