I had never tried switching to a different identity, so I gave that a shot today. It's pretty much the same way, maybe ever so slightly more responsive since there are not nearly as many messages in the new identity as compared to my main identity. But, it's a great idea to have a spare "test" ID around to use for such occasions. At any rate, as you and others suspected Paul, it's most likely an unrelated bug that is hopefully being worked on by the Entourage team right now.
As for archiving, I do that about every three or four months as part of my backups. Usually at that time I compact my database, but it doesn't sound like I really need to do that since as long as I delete the archived messages (which I do), it creates space in the database for more stuff anyway. So, thanks for all your input Paul (and everyone else too). I'm off to archive my messages...I figure I may as well do it now since I've been thinking about it so much today. hehe Have a good day everyone! Michael On 10/11/02 11:16 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Then it's probably be a post-Jaguar bug which I think is known. Entourage X > post-SR-1 can have a database up to 4 GB so 250 MB is not so big, but > probably big enough to affect performance a bit. make a new identity, import > a small message folder if you wish (via MBOX -drag a SMALL folder from your > main identity to desktop, switch identities, then drag the MBOX file into > the new identity.) Is it equally slow? Then there's an unrelated bug. Is it > fast? Then you need to look into archiving. The "poor man's" archive is to > make MBOXes, optionally importing them into a special (slow) archive > identity, or else just leave them as MBOX files for when needed, and delete > the folders in your main, daily identity. I keep about 6 months worth of > messages in my main identity. It sounds to me as if this is not your > problem, but it's something you need to keep in mind. > > BTW, you should not compact the database regularly. You should only do a > Typical Rebuild if the size gets way out of hand (like 3 times what you > really want) or you're really short of disk space or - the main purpose - if > you're having database problems such as message lists jumping out of order. > It's not great for your hard disk to be rewritten frequently, and not > necessary. What you should keep doing is deleting unneeded messages (or > archiving and deleting them). that frees up space within , makes is as fast > as if you compacted, and the space is just going to be overwritten with new > messages anyway. This is a much better technique. > > > -- > Paul Berkowitz > >> From: "Michael D. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:40:00 -0400 >> To: Entourage Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Slow response >> >> I am running Entourage X (10.1.0 with SR1 installed) on a dual-processor >> G4-450 with OS 10.2.1 and 512MB RAM; it shouldn't be slow at all. My >> database file is only about 250MB; I say only because I was under the >> impression that Entourage X could support a database size of several >> gigabytes. I just recently compacted the database, and I do that regularly >> as part of my backup procedures. >> >> On 10/11/02 1:55 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> And how large is the Database file in your main identity folder? >>> >>> If Entourage X, how much RAM do you have on your computer? >>> >>> If Entourage 2001, **how large is the Messages file in the same location as >>> Database file, and how much RAM have you assigned to Entourage? >>> >>> -- >>> Paul Berkowitz >>> >>>> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:48:04 -0700 >>>> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> Subject: Re: Slow response >>>> >>>> What version of Entourage, which OS, what CPU, etc? >>>> -- >>>> Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) >>>> Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: >>>> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> >>>> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: >>>> <http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/> >>>> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> >>>> >>>>> From: "Michael D. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:32:35 -0400 >>>>> To: Entourage Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> Subject: Slow response >>>>> >>>>> Hello everyone, >>>>> >>>>> Recently, I have experienced slow response times in Entourage. This >>>>> happens >>>>> in a couple of ways...slow refresh of messages, lists, etc; and slow >>>>> typing >>>>> response (like it takes a sec to catch up with me). Does anyone have any >>>>> idea as to what might be going on and how to fix it? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Michael -- 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/>
