I was successful in correcting this problem. I created a new user and created an entirely new profile for the user. His Email worked fine, and so I quit Entourage and moved his database and other files to the new user directory and restarted. Everything is working great now.
Thanks for the advice Allen! --------------------------------------- Gene Martin | Computing Services – Biotech II The Program In Molecular Medicine UMASS Medical School Worcester, MA 508-856-1262 http://pmm.umassmed.edu/support/support.html > From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:47:42 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Slow Sending > > That is a huge database and could very well at least be contributing to the > problem. One way to check that out would be for the user to create a new > Entourage identity and try typing and sending a message from that new > identity. Do the delays occur in the new identity? If not, the size of the > database is surely a part of the problem. Delays in typing usually mean some > kind of activity is going on in the background, such as auto-deletion of > folders, etc. Another possibility is having very large numbers of messages in > folders and doing something that causes access to those folders. The delays > when sending could be caused by rules that run on outgoing messages, > particularly if they invoke AppleScripts. On 8/22/05, Gene Martin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings! > > I have a user that is > using Entourage 2004, on Mac OS X.4, on a Mac G4 500 > MHz. > > The user is > experiencing very long periods of aprox 3 to 6 minutes, when > sending email > messages, even those with a small amount of text only. He also > experiences > lags when he is typing. Specifically, text that he is typing > does not appear > on the screen, in the body of the Email, for any where from > a few seconds to > many seconds, and then suddenly appears in the body that he > is typing. > > > I have rebuilt his database several times. I have just reformatted his hard > > drive, clean installed his OS and ran all the updates, and then clean > > installed Office 2004 and ran all the updates to that. Then again, rebuilt > > his database. > > His data base has grown to almost 6 GB. I don't know if > perhaps this has > something to do with it? I don't think it should, however, > he is using that > large database on a 500MHz G4. > > He says all his other > apps are running fine. > > The problem of slowness in Entourage persists. > Any ideas? > > --------------------------------------- > Gene Martin | > Computing Services – Biotech II > > > The Program In Molecular Medicine > > UMASS Medical School > Worcester, MA > 508-856-1262 > > http://pmm.umassmed.edu/support/support.html > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ™¨¥ªÜ†+ÞÊ&ýéí¢ > êÚà-jYãIb²Û•ëmzºâ¤([EMAIL PROTECTED] ™¨¥ªÜ†+ÞÊ&ýéí¢êÚà-jYãIb²Ûnˆ§‚€ ¢oÀ -- 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/>
