I think your workflow is both reasonable and smart. Although the limits of Entourage's database have been raised beyond the 2-4GB level, I don't think you would want to have to copy that much data to an external HD on a daily basis. Removing the attachments helps keep it lean.
-- Eddie Hargreaves On 3/25/06 7:35 AM, Lorin Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. -- 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/>
