On or near 9/3/03 11:32 PM, Harry Zink at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > on 9/3/03 12:02 PM, Lance Schlegel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> It seems like when the DB file reaches 3.99 GB the rebuild will >> fail. An advanced rebuild will process the DB and gave me a success message, >> but the DB will be 3.99 GB. When Entourage tries to open the rebuilt (and >> compressed?) > > Well, since 4GB is the upper limit of these files, that's why it fails - not > much that I can suggest. > But leaping from 2.5 to 3.99 during rebuild sounds like a problem to me! That needs addressing.
> One favor to ask for a future version of E'rage, though - in order to > provide a solution to this, would it be possible to have E'rage support > multiple such files (kinda like it's possible under (ack!) Outlook/Exchange > to have multiple PST files for personal folders. > You can have multiple identities, which amounts to the same thing. Just copy your identity folder, change its name, and then purge old stuff from your main identity. You can just sort by date, select a range, and delete. Yeah, you have to do a folder at a time. Or, you could use a script to do it. I already have a routine that would do that, part of an archive script I use; let me know if you could use a version that just selects by date and deletes from a list of folders (without copying to a FileMaker archive). > That way, not only will it be possible to actually people to organize > archive databases, but it will also solve the whole 'how to migrate PST > files' for users on Exchange servers'. > > This whole thing is a huge nasty can'0'worms, and it really is starting to > make a very good business case to abandon the MS alternatives. Not a rant, > but actual discussions being waged from some of my clients. > > Harry -- 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/>
