On 7/6/03 3:07, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yes and no. Rebuilding defragments the database as well - if you have done
>> any cleaning in your database - such as deleting a lot of messages, or
>> archiving then removing old messages - this will make a difference.
>
> Everything I've seen from the guys who designed the database seems to say
> this isn't so; they claim it is a very well-behaved database, and frequent
> deletions (as it bound to be the case with e-mail) do not diminish
> performance. Have you definite experience to support what you say?
Yes, the amount of time it takes to delete a message - from the time I press
the delete key to when the message line is gone - is noticeably faster. One
thing I have noticed though is that if I defragment my files partition, then
get a bunch of mail, performance in Entourage is slower. This is because the
database is somewhere in the middle of the files on disk, and new files are
written in a different location, fragmenting the database. In that case, I
just copy or rebuild it to get it contiguous again.
Kirk
Co-author of: Macworld Mac Upgrade and Repair Bible
http://www.mcelhearn.com/bible.html
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