Michael Kobb wrote: >Along this topic, I did a little experiment. > >I let Mail import my entire Entourage database.
How did you do that? In a thread on this list I have asked for help doing just that. Can you help me? ******************************************************* Carsten Ortmann / DR �stjylland/ Kultur 8739 7472 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dr.dk/kulturnyt http://www.dr.dk/p1morgen -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P� vegne af Michael J. Kobb Sendt: 3. juni 2005 00:26 Til: Entourage:mac Talk Emne: Re: How I Lost 30 pounds of excess Entourage weight and kept if off! Took it several hours, as it's quite a large database (~1GB). I did this in another user account, just so it would be easy to purge, but I can't see any reason why I couldn't have done it in my regular account. Then, I tried using Spotlight to search my database. FANTASTIC. Blazing, blazing fast. I think what I may do at this point is prune my Entourage down to only the last 6 months or so, and then try to figure out the easiest way to do this import on a periodic basis. By the way, I was expecting the create-a-zillion-files approach of the new Mail to bloat the size tremendously, but it didn't. The Mail folder is about 980MB, and contains everything that was in Entourage except for my deleted items and the calendar and contacts (both of which are pretty minor compared to my email). Of course, this each-message-is-a-file approach for Mail would also hugely speed up incremental backups if I were using Mail as my main client. If I do prune my Erage database, that'll at least help. I still greatly prefer Entourage over Mail as a client, but the search feature really, really DESPERATELY needs improvement in performance. --Mike > 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 > -- 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/> -- 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/>
