Re: How I Lost 30 pounds of excess Entourage weight and kept if off!

[sequoia]

Title: Re: How I Lost 30 pounds of excess Entourage weight and kept if off!

Hi Beth,

Yes, I saw Paul's good news about the no-limits size to the database. Still, I love the slimming down and yearly new database exercise  (and yes, I'm always backing up throughout the year, as well).



From: "Entourage:mac Talk" <Entourage-Talk@lists.letterrip.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:14:17 -0700
To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <Entourage-Talk@lists.letterrip.com>
Subject: Entourage-Talk Digest - 06/02/05

Subject: Re: How I Lost 30 pounds of excess Entourage weight and kept if off!

Hi Sequoia,

Two problems with this:  1) I was wrong about the database size, as Paul
pointed out, and 2) I made a distinction between removing and deleting
attachments which may or may not be valid.  See below.

> 1. Removing attachments is a good idea, but they won't get removed (make the
> DB smaller) until DB is compacted.

I'm not sure that the distinction I made between removing and deleting an
attachment is valid.  Could someone speak to this please:

If you Remove an attachment (say, to the desktop), does the space it
occupied in the database remain "occupied"?  IOW, is Removing an attachment
effectively the same as Deleting it, where the database is concerned?  IOW,
to reclaim the space previously occupied by Removing an attachment, is it
necessary to do a Compact (just like if you Deleted it)?

> 2. DB has a limit of 4 gigs, or 1 million objects (and objects include many
> other things besides emails and attachments)

DB has no size limit in terms of gigs; as for number of objects, see Paul's
explanation.

Sorry for the confusion.

Beth