On 9/22/06 9:54 AM, "Pitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to ask the long-time users of Entourage what they've found works to > help speed up the app when it starts really slowing down. Been using E'rage > since its first OS9 rendition. For the past 4 months, my Entourage (11.2.5) > has become painfully slow to use. Typing is always a character or 2 behind. > Deletion takes a few seconds. Etc. Because E'rage is the center of my entire > business, this has become unworkable. > > Here's what I've done so far: > > ·· I've been vigilant about keeping the Identity folder fairly > small, well below 1 gig, even though I get 200 emails a day. I > constantly completely delete all Sent and Delete items older than 6 > months ago > ·· I remove all attachments larger than 500K. > ·· I've rebuilt and compressed the Identity many times. > ·· I have very few Rules (6 total) and only 14 total Folders and > subfolders (if this matters in terms of speed). > ·· About once every 10 months, I duplicate the Identity, strip out > stuff I don't need to look at on a weekly basis, rebuild that, and use > that as the only Identity. > ·· Twice I have started from a new completely empty Identity, and > using Paul's Import/Export apps, brought over the Accounts, Calendar, > and Address book. > ·· I have 3600 Contacts in the Address book. > ·· I don't use the Project Center. I have about 200 Tasks. I use > the Calendar and Office Notifications daily. > > At this point, I'm open to ANY ideas. If someone says that deleting > Entourage and installing it again from the disks will speed it up > (complete with a blank brand new Identity), I'm game to do it. > > Any ideas?
There are several solutions offered on the Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/performance.html> that might help. The next time it happens, open the Activity Monitor (application found in Utilities folder) and sort by CPU | %CPU. This might give you a clue as to the cause. My personal experience was that the Microsoft Database daemon started running at near 100% after recent system updates causing spinning rainbows and long delays. I disabled Spotlight and the situation seems to have improved. Let me know what you find. -- Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage resources. <http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/> -- 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/>
