Hi Lorin,
>From what I’ve been told, yes. If you don’t need them to stay in your database, remove or delete them. If you end up deleting a lot of them, however, compact your database every now and then. Deleting items (even from the Deleted Items folder) doesn’t get them out of the database; only a Compact will do that. Not only does the Entourage 2004 database have a size limit (4 GB) but it has an items limit of 1 million.
Hello??????? (And I guess Jud skipped that "4 GB" claim.)
Beth, you've been sleeping. ;-) The Entourage 2004 database effectively has no size limit whatsoever – theoretically it's so enormous that there's no computer large enough. I've forgotten the exact "limit" – it's somewhere in the vicinity of 64 billion billion GB, or something like that, or maybe it's "only" 64 billion terabytes. Somewhere in that vicinity.
The actual limit is 2 million items, but every message is 2 items, and nearing that upper limit non-message items would be very few in comparison. So effectively the practical limit is about 1 million items, correct. But not 4 GB – that was Entourage X SR1, not Entourage 2004. One of the reasons why 2004 is so fast. I'm sure there are many readers of this list who have databases of over 4 GB (although they're likely to be people who don't check the size and don't realize it).
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Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
