How important to delete attachments?

[Lorin Roche]

Title: How important to delete attachments?

Years ago I got into the habit of immediately removing attachments and putting them in folders. I'm a writer and constantly send 300-page Word documents back and forth to my publishers.

I just noticed I am still doing this -  Is this still necessary or good? What are the limits of Entourage nowadays? What are "best practices??

My Entourage database includes stuff from before Entourage existed, or when it was Outlook Express – and is totally stable. There's many thousands of emails there but almost no attachments at all.

It is about 550 mb and I back it up everyday by closing Office programs and quitting the Database Daemon from Activity Monitor, then dragging the MUD folder to a separate partition or external hd.

By the way, good work everybody – on my machines, Entourage is absolutely stable – I use it all day everyday and I don't remember the last time it had trouble with anything.


Version 11.2.3 (060209) Entourage, part of Office 2004, all the service releases applied. OS X 10.4.5 on a dual 2.3 ghz 4 gbs RAM.


Lorin