On 10/16/07 4:20 PM, Roger S. Cohen wrote: > But think about how much overhead you're adding to Entourage and the Mac. > An 8 gig database file sounds dangerous to me.
It may sound that way to you, but has proven otherwise to me. Entourage performs well. I have no complaints. What do you mean by "overhead"? Entourage is never the biggest use of my CPU unless nothing else is running. Right now, Safari (with two pages open) and Adobe Illustrator CS3 (with no docs open, and Hidden) are both using more % of CPU than Entourage is. It's using less RAM than either of those apps, and it's using less RAM than Windowserver. > If you have an 8 gig Entourage DB, it sounds like you must have a lot of big > attachments still attached to the original emails. Why not remove them, > place them in in proper folders, and then have a slimmer Entourage DB? No, I don't have much in the way of attachments, which are useless to me in Entourage (can't view more than one page unless you open it anyway, can't edit/save docs, etc.). I do have many years' worth of email, going all the way to back to Outlook Express (which imported nicely into Entourage) -- mostly clients and work-related. I find Entourage's search feature very good for putting my fingers on the information I need when I need it. Transferring project information to text files or some other cataloguing software doesn't seem to be needed, given Entourage's capabilities. For example, I could drag out the folder that has more than 13,000 recipe emails in it (I said "mostly" clients, not all clients <g>). But, then I couldn't search in Entourage for "cilantro" or "lemon" or "tofu"; using Spotlight on my hard disk to try to find those recipes returns all kinds of detritus that is of no use to me. I could transfer them all to a Filemaker database. But why give up one database for another? I guess Microsoft just made Entourage too good! The advent of HTML mail has caused my DB to bloat more than anything else. A three line message in HTML is three or four times the size of a Plain Text message. I shake my fists at the casual HTMLers. :-) And I back up my Entourage database religiously (the main reason I do pare down to keep it at 7-8GB is that if it gets larger, it does not fit on a dual-layer DVD). Vive le difference! ~Linda -- 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/>
