I've been using Entourage since it first came out, as I recall. I used Outlook before that and imported. So I have mail going back to 1998. I'm a writer, and have many books out. It is really handy to be able to see emails from 5, 7, 9 years ago, at a glance.
Even with tens of thousands of emails, Entourage is totally stable. I am wondering what a good, basic maintenance routine would be. What are the most elegant solutions? Should I put all the old email in Filemaker Pro, for example? I quit the Database Daemon every day and back up the MUD folder to an external drive. Other than that, the only thing I do is remove all attachments, both incoming and outgoing, and file them elsewhere. I do this as they come in. Once every six months or so I hold down the option key and let Entourage "compact" the database, which right now is 341 MB. I hadn't done this in a long time, and just before compacting it was 700 MB almost. I really don't fuss with Entourage at all. It just works. The only thing I suspect is that because there are so many thousands of old emails, it slows down Project Center. versions: I always have the latest OS and the latest build of Entourage. Right now that is Entourage 11.3.3, OS 10.4.9, on a G5 Mac with 8 GB of RAM and tons of hd space free. Lorin
