Really quite baffling! Have you tried sacrificing a chicken? Let's see, what's left? Have you tried replacing your preference files and folder (com.microsoft.entourage.plist, and the "Entourage Preferences" folder)? (Stash the current ones someplace, maybe stuffed; then let Entourage create new ones.)
On or near 8/9/2002 10:46 AM, Dan Frakes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > On 8/8/02 11:52 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Aside from messages, how many contacts, calendar events, tasks and notes do >> you have? Do you create lots of links? Do you do a lot of editing of >> recurring events (single occurrences of recurring events, in particular)? Do >> you use lots of different fonts? > > Paul: > > Here's what I have: > > Contacts: about 1000, 350 of which are email-only > Calendar events: 643, 60 of which are birthdays (recurring yearly) > Tasks: 12 (long-term; I don't really use Tasks much) > Notes: 33, most quite short > > I don't think I ever use links > > Other than birthdays, I have very few recurring events. > > I only use fonts in Notes (I use the smaller/larger option). Everything else > I do in plain text, including ALL outgoing email. > > >> Do you have lots of free disk space on the partition that contains your MUD >> folder? Could it be very fragmented? Have you used Disk Warrior and Plus >> Optimizer (or Speed Disk) recently? > > I have 15GB of free space. I use Disk Warrior regularly. I have defragmented > the drive twice in the past year, but hesitate to do it more often after the > discussion on MacInTouch where the consensus seemed to be that defragmenting > isn't necessarily a good idea under OS X. > > > > On 8/9/02 4:03 AM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm about to head of on a vacation trip so I won't be checking in on this >> thread very often after tomorrow. I hope you get your problem resolved, Dan! > > Thanks, Allen. Enjoy the "vacation" (congrats again!) :) > >> I tend to think, like Paul, that something else is involved here. Have you >> tried running Disk Utility on your disk (from the install CD), or running >> "fsck" to repair potential disk corruption? (Boot holding cmd-S, wait till >> prompted, then follow instructions. When you get a clean run, type "exit" to >> continue startup.) > > Yep, I run fsck about once a week. > > > -- My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> My scripts page: <http:homepage.mac.com/allenwatson> Microsoft MVP for Mac Entourage/Word--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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/>
