What does quitting Database Demon do? I only do this when I copy my User ID onto my laptop from my G5.
Is it good practice to quit it regularly? Barbara > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 01:27:28 -0000 (GMT) > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Cc: mac Talk <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Basic maintenance of Totally stable Entourage > > While all the advice about keeping backups is a good one, if you have a > working, stable system I wouldn't be going through and doing anything that > introduces possible problems to the identity. > > Examples of things that will start to change things, is removing > attachments, etc. If you need to reduce the size, then they may be good > ideas. If not, don't mess with what works. > > The vast majority of people have never seen spurious corruption. I'm one > of those people and I've been using the database when it definitely wasn't > at its best (between releases). > > Diane Ross said: >> On 5/1/07 3:28 PM, "Lorin Roche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Be sure to keep multiple copies of your backups. This way in case there is >> corruption, you can go back to an earlier backup. I use FolderOrgX to >> organize my backups. >> >> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/database/backup.html#folderorg> >>> >>> 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. >> >> Do you use the scripts to remove attachments? They will save, remove and >> link the saved files to the message, so you can open the file directly >> from >> the message. >> >> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/fav_scripts.html#favscript17> >> >> <http://scriptbuilders.net/files/saveattachments20041.0.0.html> >> >> Also remove your outgoing attachments with a rule. This is assuming your >> outgoing attachments are stored elsewhere on your computer. No need to >> have >> them duplicated and filling up your database. >> >> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule001.html> >>> >>> 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. >>> >> See this on Project Center and slowdowns in Entourage: >> >> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/project_center.html> >>> >>> 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. >> >> 8GB of RAM is very nice!!!! >> >> My only advice would be to archive your older mail to a separate Identity >> for searching and to keep your working Identity lean and lessen the chance >> of corruption in your older mail. Since you don't have a large database, I >> would do this on a yearly basis. >> >> Duplicate your current Identity. Name the copy Archive XXXX or some other >> suitable name. Then in your current Identity, create a custom view to show >> all mail older than xxx days. I always suggest at least a minimum of 90 >> days. Delete the older mails from the custom view. >> >> (When you do this yearly I suggest having some overlap of messages. >> Especially if you do this at the very beginning of the year. If not you'll >> be constantly switching to the old Identity to search for a recent email.) >> >> Now you have your current email available and your older mail safely >> stored >> in a separate Identity for easy searching. I don't suggest that you >> compact >> your database. Entourage will reuse that space with new messages. Think of >> this as using a partition for Entourage. >> >> One of the first things I do when I wipe a drive and re-install software >> is >> >> 1. Install OS >> 2. Install Office >> 3. Open Entourage and add files to make it at least 2GB. (can be any >> size) >> 4. Delete the excess mail that was added. >> >> Now I have created a 2GB partition in one contiguous space on my drive for >> my Entourage database. Even though your data is written to a database the >> database can be in bits around your drive. By establishing a size to your >> database in the beginning, Entourage will continue to reuse that space >> without writing it to other parts of your drive. >> >> -- >> Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP >> Entourage Help Page >> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> >> One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog. >> <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/> >> >> > > -- > 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/> -- 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/>
