Perhaps it would help to clear the most recently used address cache. Go to
Preferences, Mail & News/Compose, and click the "Clear List" button.
On or near 7/27/04 4:46 PM, Elizabeth Noble at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> Thanks, I had rebuilt the DB but it didn't help. Perhaps pushing 500 MB is
> too big and I need to do some archiving...
> EN
>
>
> On 7/27/04 5:01 AM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 27/7/04 1:48 am, "Elizabeth Noble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am noticing problems with the address auto-fill feature. In the past, as
>>> long as the right name came up with just a few letters, I could hit return
>>> and it would fill. Now I get a ? And have to take my hand off the keyboard,
>>> scroll down the list with the mouse, and even then when I click on the
>>> highlighted address it doesn't always fill correctly...
>>> THANKS
>>> EN
>>> Mac OSX 3.4
>>>
>> It is possibly an early sign of mild database corruption.
>>
>> Office vX:
>> Hold down the option key when starting Entourage and take the first option
>> ('typical rebuild'). If this doesn�t resolve the problems, then try an
>> �Advanced Rebuild�.
>>
>> Office 2004:
>> You still call the rebuilder by holding down Option key at launch, but it
>> now brings up a separate app "Database Utility" (which could be launched by
>> double-clicking of you wish) that lives in the Office subfolder.
>>
>> First of all, if you have any Office apps open, a dialog comes up that
>> offers to quit them.
>>
>> Then you get a window with a list of your identities to select from, and
>> four options:
>>
>> 1) It has a new feature "Verify database integrity" option: this should
>> reduce unnecessary rebuilding. Apparently it's quite sensitive. And see 4)
>> below.
>>
>> 2) "Compact the database". (Like X's "Typical rebuild").
>>
>> 3) Rebuild the database. (Like X's "Advanced Rebuild")
>>
>> 4) "Set database preferences". Actually there's only one pref: you can turn
>> on "Verify database in background "which means "run automatically" and let
>> you know if your database needs rebuilding.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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