On or near 7/9/03 11:24 AM, Jan Martel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > Because of my incredible stupidity, not necessary to detail :-), I'm using > E'rage 2001 on OS 9 this morning, on an older PowerBook. It is incredibly > much faster than what I have become used to with E'rage X and OS 10.2.6. I > guess I had become used to the speed on the other system (faster computer, > btw), so I didn't think of it as sluggish, but now that I'm back to using > this for a little while, I realize that my performance on the other is > really bad. Just little things, like the text appearing on the screen > significantly after I type it, and deleting a message taking a noticeable > time, whereas here it just goes away and the next one appears as soon as I > hit the delete key. So I can't help wondering whether there's something I > need to do to get the other system to run faster. Or is a certain amount of > sluggishness the cost of the good things in OSX/Office X? > > I tried (a couple of days ago) copying my database and starting in with the > new one as Allen suggested. I didn't notice any speed difference. I did have > a strange experience though - I had copied my entire identity and then > renamed it as "old," then copied the database and deleted the original one > from the identity with its original name. Then I restarted E'rage X and used > it for awhile and then quit and later started again. For some reason it went > back to the old database (in the folder with the identity called "old"). I > noticed that some messages I thought I had deleted were still there, then > switched to "old" and the messages were gone. I then renamed a bunch of > things and now I think I'm consistently starting up with the same > identity/database, but I wondered how the path to what database to use is > created? It always thought I was using my normal identity (iow when I went > to "switch identities" it showed the identity being used as Jan not Old > Jan), but it wasn't using the new database.
The database Daemon process might still be running, holding on to the original copy even though you moved it and renamed the folder. It is best to either totally delete the old copy (empty the trash) or rename each of the files, so there is no chance of the old file still being referenced. If you don't want to delete and want to be certain the old file isn't used, use stuffit or Zipit or some compression utility to compress the entire folder into an archive. OS X will even let you access files in the trash, which is why you have to empty it before relaunching Entourage, if you trash the originals. -- 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://members.thinkaccess.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- 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/>
