On 9/25/05 6:36 PM, "Beth Rosengard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With a database as large as yours, I would also advise first compacting and > then rebuilding your database before importing. You're going to be deleting > unnecessary mail and compacting will reclaim the space it occupied; > rebuilding, on the other hand, will assure that there is no minor corruption > in the database to cause any trouble during the import. But rebuilding the database _also_ compacts it. There's no need to do both if you're going to rebuild. Rebuilding copies data to a new database, creating new IDs and links. It doesn't copy empty spaces any more than "Compact" does. So it compacts just as effectively. (Compacting doesn't assign new IDs or links.) Compacting (and rebuilding) won't compact - won't lessen the size - unless you've deleted items from the database, of course. It's not a "compression" - it just doesn't re-write areas of the database that have been marked as "deleted". -- 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. -- 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/>
