On 12/9/03 1:21 PM, "Peter C.S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. In the real world, how bloated should the database be before you > compact it? I can save 10-15% of the database's size every month or so just > deleting spam...... Rebuilding and compacting are really two different ideas. With the size of drives now, compacting is rarely needed. I intentionally made my database huge, then deleted the "extra" so I could create a continuous space on my hard drive for my database. ============ The database will be left with 'wasted' space in it every time you delete something. However, this is not all bad, since the wasted space is used up with new data as it is added. This way, over a period of time (assuming that you are deleting stuff as you go) the database will probably reach an optimum size, after which the stuff you delete is roughly equal to the stuff you add, and no further growth takes place. If you need to recover the wasted space on your hard disk, you will have to do a 'typical' rebuild to compact the database. This will create a compacted version of the database without the wasted space. You will then have to manually delete the backup copies of the original database that the rebuild process creates AFTER you are happy the new one is OK. ============ -- Diane Ross Mac MVP Entourage Help Page <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/>
