>> I have about thirty email accounts. I check all of them every five minutes. >> Running under OS9 this never seemed to be a problem. Now that I am using the >> supposedly faster OSX (and the new screwed up and not improved) Entourage X, >> I get the Rainbow Pinwheel that totally stops all activity every time >> Entourage checks for mail. > > Who told you that OS X was faster? They are a liar, a dirty rotten liar. OS > X is many things, but faster is not one of them.
I'll tell you that OS X is faster, but in a different way than you probably want. Under OS 9 try launching Photoshop, and while it's launching check the status of a download in IE. Or finish typing an email, or launch Illustrator, or play another game of solitaire... OS X is tremendous in that it allows you to do other things while your machine is working on something. This is wonderful for those who do more than one thing at a time. Not only that, but how fast was your computer under OS 7-9 while you were waiting for it to reboot after you'd opened one too many things? I never liked that uneasy feeling that my machine might be only a few clicks away from a hard crash. - B ps. For the original poster, the spinning-beach-ball-of-death (SBBOD) is usually the OS waiting for the disk. Often this is a result of memory paging (having more than 512MB RAM dramatically reduces this), a fragmented database (see Diane's earlier post), or possibly another process doing some heavy disk IO. Those might be good places to start looking. If it only happens while you're checking email, it's likely a rule that's firing off an AppleScript for each message. They really do need to thread scripts run within 'rage. -- 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/>
