On 5/13/04 9:05 AM, Barry Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/5/04 4:20 am, "Mark Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just upgraded to Office 2004 and I had a bit of a problem with Entourage. >> I have about 20 email accounts that all get a tremendous amount of mail. I >> have each account set up to leave the mail of the server for 14 days, this >> way I can check my mail when I am out of town and still get the mail on my >> main computer at home. So I perform the upgrade and then check my mail. Much >> to surprise my computer was flooded with thousands of redundant messages >> that I had already previously retrieved. >> > > Yes, unfortunately that will be a one-off event. > > As part fo the upgrade the database structure has changed dramatically, and > so it effectively goes through a complex rebuild process during the update. > This does, unfortunately, clear the cache of message IDs that have been > marked as already downloaded. > > A pain to deal with, I know, but it shouldn't recur.
Downloading again all messages on an IMAP server could involve much clean-up work if attachments from many of the original messages had been removed from the local copy to keep the database small and highly portable. If online status information is lost during the upgrade and all messages are downloaded again, wouldn't the full message with attachments be received? If so, it would be more than a minor inconvenience to check many thousands of messages to make the same decisions about selectively removing attachments. It sure would be helpful to have the option of setting the online status of messages in the upgraded database to 'fully downloaded' prior to the first download to avoid having all messages (and their attachments) downloaded again. -Jeffrey Berman -- 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/>
