[ANN] AppleScript Updates and Adaptation

[Paul Berkowitz]

Two updates (new features) and a script newly adapted from an OE script, now
available at 

AppleScript Central  :


Address Book List E [v2.0.1] - update

This script will print out an alphabetical list of selected, flagged or all
contacts from your Entourage Address Book or from a Custom View, with each
listing containing just your choice of fields. It can list contacts as
ŒFirstName LastName¹ or as ŒLastName, FirstName¹ (telephone book style), in
either case alphabetized by last name and incorporating Company contacts
without names. It allows you to choose your font, type size, print form and
page size.

v2.0.1: Fixes a bug that prevented the ³Run-On² option from taking effect.
New in v2.0:
€ Complete choice of which fields you want included
€ Choice of Selected Contacts, Flagged Contacts, or All Contacts.
€ Saving as Note allows you the full range of HTML fonts, type sizes,
colors, print forms and page sizes when printing.
€ Choice of ³Run-On² format (run-on lines with fields separated by commas,
continuation lines hard-wrapped and indented) or ³Separate Lines² format
(each field on a separate indented line)
€ Saving these preferences for future contact selections and print runs,
plus ability to change these saved preferences

Requirements:  
€ Microsoft Entourage
€ Akua Sweets 1.4 (or higher) Scripting Addition (osax), available free at
http://www.osaxen.com or at
http://www.akua.com/Software/AkuaSweets/index.html.



Fill Contact from Form  [v1.3.0]  - update

If you have a website with a CGI form which is completed by users and sent
to you as an email, and you would like the information supplied by each user
to be entered automatically in a new Entourage  Contact card in your Address
Book filling relevant fields, use this script to do so. You can run it from
a Mail Rule so that it deals with the messages automatically as they come in

Note: This script has been revised for Entourage from its equivalent OE
script. It takes advantage of new AppleScript features of Entourage which
allow access to the names of custom fields, making it easier and quicker to
identify and record them in set-up.

v1.3 fixes a bug that transcribed only the first line of the ³Notes² field ­
now you get all of it; and will also enter the email address of the sender
of the CGI email message as the email address of the new contact if you have
not included an Email field in your CGI.


Requirements: Microsoft Entourage.  Akua Sweets scripting addition, free at
http://www.osaxen.com



Edit Redirect E  - NEW for Entourage [adapted from OE script]

These scripts will allow you to edit received messages, then redirect them ­
something that is impossible in standard Entourage use - with the original
sender and date, just as for any redirected message.

Requirements: Microsoft Entourage



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Re: Strange Problem: Deleted Messages Staying inDatabase, Invisibly

[Paul Berkowitz]

On 8/27/01 1:05 PM, "WilliamLH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Try a Complex Rebuild.

That will also work, if thy are news messages, since  complex rebuild always
deletes all news messages, even if you haven't done an Empty cache. But it's
overkill if it's not necessary.

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Re: Strange Problem: Deleted Messages Staying inDatabase, Invisibly

[Paul Berkowitz]

On 8/27/01 12:55 PM, "Nick dePlume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I used to have an Entourage database of over 20,000 messages. Finally, I
> archived most of them to a FileMaker database, leaving only about 1,500
> messages in the E'rage database at a time.
> 
> For some reason, it appears that Entourage still thinks that I have 11,000
> or so emails. When doing a search, results display emails that I had already
> archived and deleted -- the emails can be opened, etc., and display the
> folder name of folders I trashed long ago. My E'rage database is over 90MB,
> and I have only 1,500 or so emails that are visible.
> 
> A typical rebuild did not solve this problem.
> 
> Any ideas what the best way to solve the problem is?
> 
I suspect that they are not emails but news messages, If you ever download
news, you have accumulated a huge number of news messages, which are not in
your mail folders. Control-Click on your news server(s), select Empty Cache,
then do another Typical Rebuild. What do you see now?

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Strange Problem: Deleted Messages Staying in Database, Invisibly

[Nick dePlume]

> I used to have an Entourage database of over 20,000 messages. Finally, I
> archived most of them to a FileMaker database, leaving only about 1,500
> messages in the E'rage database at a time.
> 
> For some reason, it appears that Entourage still thinks that I have 11,000 or
> so emails. When doing a search, results display emails that I had already
> archived and deleted -- the emails can be opened, etc., and display the folder
> name of folders I trashed long ago. My E'rage database is over 90MB, and I
> have only 1,500 or so emails that are visible.
> 
> A typical rebuild did not solve this problem.
> 
> Any ideas what the best way to solve the problem is?

Unfortunately, an advanced rebuild did not solve the problem either. -Nick

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Re: Strange Problem: Deleted Messages Staying inDatabase, Invisibly

[Nick dePlume]

> A. Make sure you don't have "Unread Only" under View checked.
> B. Make sure you emptied the trash and it is empty (as opposed to emptying
> things that are X days old).
> 
> You will have to a rebuild to compact the 90 megs down.

I'm positive on both counts. I'll try the complex rebuild, and will let you
all know how it works out.

Thanks,

-Nick



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Re: Archiving Entourage mail

[Roger Turpin]

Allen, I just ran it in the Trial Version of FMP 5.5 for X and it works!


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> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:14:19 -0700
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Archiving Entourage mail
> 
> The scripts are all now "native" AppleScript, no scripting additions, so I
> think it will work. I do not know if it will work with FileMaker Pro for X;
> the cost of that is so horrendous that I don't expect to upgrade, and will
> probably continue to run FMP in Classic as long as it will run. Of course
> the runtime engine that comes with it is not native to X...but runs in
> Classic.
> 
> On or near 8/27/01 10:52 AM, Roger Turpin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> observed:
> 
>> In my opinion this is the "Best" way for archiving email. I have tried many
>> others, and the features in the Crevier package are great. With  over 3000
>> messages archived I hope we will be able to use this natively in OS X when
>> Entourage X is released.
>> 
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Re: Strange Problem: Deleted Messages Staying inDatabase, Invisibly

[WilliamLH]

Try a Complex Rebuild.
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> From: Nick dePlume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:55:11 -0400
> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Strange Problem: Deleted Messages Staying in Database, Invisibly
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I used to have an Entourage database of over 20,000 messages. Finally, I
> archived most of them to a FileMaker database, leaving only about 1,500
> messages in the E'rage database at a time.
> 
> For some reason, it appears that Entourage still thinks that I have 11,000
> or so emails. When doing a search, results display emails that I had already
> archived and deleted -- the emails can be opened, etc., and display the
> folder name of folders I trashed long ago. My E'rage database is over 90MB,
> and I have only 1,500 or so emails that are visible.
> 
> A typical rebuild did not solve this problem.
> 
> Any ideas what the best way to solve the problem is?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Nick
> 
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Strange Problem: Deleted Messages Staying in Database, Invisibly

[Nick dePlume]

Hello all,

I used to have an Entourage database of over 20,000 messages. Finally, I
archived most of them to a FileMaker database, leaving only about 1,500
messages in the E'rage database at a time.

For some reason, it appears that Entourage still thinks that I have 11,000
or so emails. When doing a search, results display emails that I had already
archived and deleted -- the emails can be opened, etc., and display the
folder name of folders I trashed long ago. My E'rage database is over 90MB,
and I have only 1,500 or so emails that are visible.

A typical rebuild did not solve this problem.

Any ideas what the best way to solve the problem is?

Thanks in advance,

-Nick

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Re: Archiving Entourage mail

[Allen Watson]

The scripts are all now "native" AppleScript, no scripting additions, so I
think it will work. I do not know if it will work with FileMaker Pro for X;
the cost of that is so horrendous that I don't expect to upgrade, and will
probably continue to run FMP in Classic as long as it will run. Of course
the runtime engine that comes with it is not native to X...but runs in
Classic.

On or near 8/27/01 10:52 AM, Roger Turpin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:

> In my opinion this is the "Best" way for archiving email. I have tried many
> others, and the features in the Crevier package are great. With  over 3000
> messages archived I hope we will be able to use this natively in OS X when
> Entourage X is released.
> 

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Re: OS X concerning privileges

[Eric Hildum]

Let me guess, you tried to change the ownership of all files on the volume,
not just the document files, right? You are dead. You will need to do a
clean install, if you are lucky.

Unix is a very different beast than MacOS. Unix was originally developed in
spare time by some researchers at AT&T. While they did some interesting
work, operating system design (and programming language design) were clearly
not their main expertise - technically both Unix and the companion language
C have many shortcomings, even for systems designed in the 1970s. One of the
major weaknesses is the security scheme, which is what has cause the problem
described below. However, the source was easily available and cheap, which
made it a popular system at universities. It was never intended for use by
other then experienced professionals (and one may argue it really was never
intended to be used beyond a couple of PDP 11/70s at AT&T in the mid to late
1970s).

Until the release of Mac OS X, Unix has been restricted to professionally
administered systems, skilled hobbists, and embedded systems. In those
contexts, the different "domains" make a lot of sense, and much of the
system depends on these different domains being set up correctly. Apple has
done a very good job of protecting those domains from accidental changes -
but they are not absolute protections (nor were the protections in earlier
versions of MacOS; people could still drag the finder and system to the
trash). 

In my opinion though, the failure here is with the "Super Get Info" utility,
not with Apple. The dangers of unrestricted changes to ownership (especially
to setuid files) are obvious to any skilled developer, and the application
should have been designed to be aware of the different domains, and give
appropriate warnings.

on 01.8.24 7:50 PM, Roger Turpin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I used "Super Get Info" a few weeks ago to try to get past this whole
> privileges thing, and Eric is right. My system became unbootable, even a
> reinstall wouldn't work.

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Re: Archiving Entourage mail

[Roger Turpin]

In my opinion this is the "Best" way for archiving email. I have tried many
others, and the features in the Crevier package are great. With  over 3000
messages archived I hope we will be able to use this natively in OS X when
Entourage X is released.


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> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:11:09 -0700
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Archiving Entourage mail
> 
> On or near 8/27/01 9:36 AM, Roger Turpin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> observed:
> 
>> Hey, you don't need FileMaker for this one, it includes the FMP runtime
>> engine, so go for it.
> 
> Speaking of the runtime engine sort of thing, for FREE you can get a version
> of the Crevier FMP archive that runs with Entourage. I just uploaded a
> version to applescriptcentral.com (ASC) a few days ago. You can still obtain
> the free runtime skeleton database for it from
> .
> 
> You download the "Emailer" package, then throw away all but the actual
> database file, and use the scripts for Entourage from ASC. Ignore the blurb
> on ASC that says you require osaxen such as Tanaka's; you no longer need
> anything but the enclosed scripts.
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Re: searching message body

[Allen Watson]

On or near 8/27/01 9:15 AM, Dan Crevier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> Actually, you have that backwards.  We store the raw message source which
> has to be decoded so that we can compare it to the Unicode search string.
> 
Oh, well, something like that. Same result.
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Re: Archiving Entourage mail

[Allen Watson]

On or near 8/27/01 9:36 AM, Roger Turpin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:

> Hey, you don't need FileMaker for this one, it includes the FMP runtime
> engine, so go for it.

Speaking of the runtime engine sort of thing, for FREE you can get a version
of the Crevier FMP archive that runs with Entourage. I just uploaded a
version to applescriptcentral.com (ASC) a few days ago. You can still obtain
the free runtime skeleton database for it from
.

You download the "Emailer" package, then throw away all but the actual
database file, and use the scripts for Entourage from ASC. Ignore the blurb
on ASC that says you require osaxen such as Tanaka's; you no longer need
anything but the enclosed scripts.
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Re: searching message body

[Lewis Pennock]

After installing SR-1 my searches have improved tremendously.  That was it.

Thanks Dan!

-Lewis

On 8/27/01 11:14 AM, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 8/27/01 8:12 AM, "Lewis Pennock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> A while back someone told me that searching was reasonably fast under
>> Entourage, but I am wondering if they meant only searching subjects, titles,
>> and names only.   Under Emailer, with a folder of just a few thousand items,
>> searching was reasonable (once a folder hits 10,000 or more and the overall
>> db gets into the 100,000 range it slows down considerably).
>> 
>> Under my new and therefore relatively small Entourage mail database I just
>> tried to search for a text string across entire messages in a folder with
>> 1023 messages.   It very slowly crept its way up to 256 and then died (I had
>> to force quit Entourage which took down the OS as well).  I gave Entourage
>> 20 megs or ram and tried again, and I canceled it after it very slowly made
>> its way to 200.   Is it supposed to take 5 minutes to search a folder with
>> 1000 messages?   That is not really acceptable.
>> 
>> Is it not indexing the message body, and if so, is there a way to have
>> Entourage index index the body text of a message?   If not, is there anyway
>> to use Sherlock's document indexing to search Entourage messages?
> 
> Are you using SR-1?  We fixed a bug that causes behavior similar to what you
> describing.

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Re: Archiving Entourage mail

[Adam Boettiger]

> Speaking of which, this was just posted on VersionTracker. (I don't have
> FileMakerPro, nor could I afford it, so always looking for alternatives . .

Try an alternative way then:

A)  Create a second "User" in Entourage called "Archives".  Move old email
and sent items to that user and then when you want to access archives just
click on File, Switch Identity, and access your archives.  Of course this
could get very large very quickly, but it is an alternative.

B)  Create a folder on your hard drive called "Entourage Archives" or "Email
Archives".  Create sub folders of Q1_01, Q2_01 etc. or by date, such as
080101_120101 for a date range.  Alternatively if you want to make it easier
to find a particular message you can also segregate the subfolders into
"Sent email" and "Received email".  Every three months or so, go into your
sent items and delete items and run a query by date, such as "Show me all
messages older than 30 days".  Then highlight all and click and drag to copy
those messsages to the archives subfolder.  Or if you don't require
archiving all of your email, you can just archive or backup specific
folders.

C)  As with B above, but burn it to a CD ROM for safekeeping instread of on
your hard drive.  Or put it on your hard drive and use an off-site backup
solution like BackJack http://www.backjack.com/ .

One obvious problem to this solution is that if you want to search for a
specific message you have to re-import that portion of your archives back
into ER by dragging.  This is admittedly nowhere near as effective as a
database application or archive, but it doesn't cost anything and will do a
decent job of maintaining a record of past messages in case you need to pull
one up months from now.

Hope this helps.

AB
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Re: Archiving Entourage mail

[Roger Turpin]

Hey, you don't need FileMaker for this one, it includes the FMP runtime
engine, so go for it.

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> From: "Diane L. Schirf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:10:29 -0500
> To: Entourage-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Archiving Entourage mail
> 
> Speaking of which, this was just posted on VersionTracker. (I don't have
> FileMakerPro, nor could I afford it, so always looking for alternatives . .
> .)
> 
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Re: searching message body

[Dan Crevier]

On 8/27/01 8:59 AM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On or near 8/27/01 8:12 AM, Lewis Pennock at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> 
>> Is it not indexing the message body, and if so, is there a way to have
>> Entourage index index the body text of a message?   If not, is there anyway
>> to use Sherlock's document indexing to search Entourage messages?
>> 
> Nope , it does not index; in fact, as I recall, the db file is (for reasons
> that escape me but which seemed reasonable when the MS folks told the list)
> kept in Unicode, and there is some kind of translation required to even look
> at the message body, which is why things slow so badly. The crash you
> encountered isn't normal, though. I've searched through thousands of records
> successfully; it just takes a lot of time.

Actually, you have that backwards.  We store the raw message source which
has to be decoded so that we can compare it to the Unicode search string.

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Re: "Entourage Conduit" failed (error = #16388)

[Remo Del Bello]

On 8/27/01 6:57 AM, Roger Turpin deftly typed out:

> I have just started having a problem when I Hot Sync - Entourage Conduit
> synchronization failed
> "Entourage Conduit" failed (error = #16388)
> I¹ve never had a problem before. Has anyone had this problem?

I don't remember if that is the exact error message, but I've found that
Palm synching is the best way to find database corruption. I will
periodically find that synching won't work and every time this has happened
an advanced rebuild (along with a possibly unnecessary reset of the Palm)
has fixed my synching problems.

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Re: searching message body

[Dan Crevier]

On 8/27/01 8:12 AM, "Lewis Pennock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> A while back someone told me that searching was reasonably fast under
> Entourage, but I am wondering if they meant only searching subjects, titles,
> and names only.   Under Emailer, with a folder of just a few thousand items,
> searching was reasonable (once a folder hits 10,000 or more and the overall
> db gets into the 100,000 range it slows down considerably).
> 
> Under my new and therefore relatively small Entourage mail database I just
> tried to search for a text string across entire messages in a folder with
> 1023 messages.   It very slowly crept its way up to 256 and then died (I had
> to force quit Entourage which took down the OS as well).  I gave Entourage
> 20 megs or ram and tried again, and I canceled it after it very slowly made
> its way to 200.   Is it supposed to take 5 minutes to search a folder with
> 1000 messages?   That is not really acceptable.
> 
> Is it not indexing the message body, and if so, is there a way to have
> Entourage index index the body text of a message?   If not, is there anyway
> to use Sherlock's document indexing to search Entourage messages?

Are you using SR-1?  We fixed a bug that causes behavior similar to what you
describing.

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Re: searching message body

[Allen Watson]

On or near 8/27/01 8:12 AM, Lewis Pennock at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> Is it not indexing the message body, and if so, is there a way to have
> Entourage index index the body text of a message?   If not, is there anyway
> to use Sherlock's document indexing to search Entourage messages?
> 
Nope , it does not index; in fact, as I recall, the db file is (for reasons
that escape me but which seemed reasonable when the MS folks told the list)
kept in Unicode, and there is some kind of translation required to even look
at the message body, which is why things slow so badly. The crash you
encountered isn't normal, though. I've searched through thousands of records
successfully; it just takes a lot of time.

I am sure MS is aware of this as a problem and is working on it for the next
release of Entourage.

In the meanwhile: No way to use Sherlock. The best you can do is to get one
of the FileMaker archiving packages (I recommend John Carlsen's eMessage
Archiver, now at beta 17, which looks to be the final before actual release;
you can download at 

I regularly archive everything older than 14 days, with special exceptions
(eMA allows you, for instance, to exclude flagged messages or certain
priorities), and then delete them, which keeps the main database lean and
quick to search for recent messages. FileMaker can index text fields, and
the searching, even with tens of thousands of messages, is like lightning.
Although FMP itself won't highlight found text in the message, Carlsen
includes a method of locating text strings within messages that works very
well.
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[Lewis Pennock]

A while back someone told me that searching was reasonably fast under
Entourage, but I am wondering if they meant only searching subjects, titles,
and names only.   Under Emailer, with a folder of just a few thousand items,
searching was reasonable (once a folder hits 10,000 or more and the overall
db gets into the 100,000 range it slows down considerably).

Under my new and therefore relatively small Entourage mail database I just
tried to search for a text string across entire messages in a folder with
1023 messages.   It very slowly crept its way up to 256 and then died (I had
to force quit Entourage which took down the OS as well).  I gave Entourage
20 megs or ram and tried again, and I canceled it after it very slowly made
its way to 200.   Is it supposed to take 5 minutes to search a folder with
1000 messages?   That is not really acceptable.

Is it not indexing the message body, and if so, is there a way to have
Entourage index index the body text of a message?   If not, is there anyway
to use Sherlock's document indexing to search Entourage messages?

Thanks,

-Lewis


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Re: "Entourage Conduit" failed (error = #16388)

[Roger Turpin]

Title: Re: "Entourage Conduit" failed (error = #16388)



Searching the archives, I found that this is a intermittent problem with the Kyocera SmartPhone, which I have.
I did a “soft reset” on the phone and that seemed to correct the problem.

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From: Roger Turpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:57:49 -0400
To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "Entourage Conduit" failed (error = #16388)


I have just started having a problem when I Hot Sync - Entourage Conduit synchronization failed
"Entourage Conduit" failed (error = #16388)
I’ve never had a problem before. Has anyone had this problem?



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Re: Why Does E-Rage Slow Down?

[Zieman]

Title: Re: Why Does E-Rage Slow Down?



I had this problem too. My solution was that I had Apple share active on my G3 400 running 9.2.1.

Jim Baskins8/27/01 8:54 AM said:

On 8/27/01 4:22 AM, Martin Knakkergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Mark Deniken skrev d. 26.08.2001 20:58:

on 7/14/01 10:04 AM, Mac Carter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Can anyone tell me why E-rage sometimes slows down to a crawl?  I referring to the sporadic times when the cursor slows down to about half the speed of my typing (and I’m not real fast).  As I type this, it’s like a slug.  I have to pause to wait for the cursor to catch up.  Very frustrating.  Re-starting always clears it up, but is there anything else that might be causing it that can be fixed?

I know this thread was from a while back but I am having the exact same issue.  I didn’t see any solutions to it from the posts I read, anyone have any success eliminating it?  I’m using a G4/450DP, OS 9.2.1 with  1.12GB of RAM and have allocated about 64MB to entourage, but I don’t think this is a memory issue.  Does anyone have the email address for entourage support?

Mark Deniken •
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Think Different 

It’s almost certain that Spell Checking is the culprit.
Try switching it off. If it helps throw away the Custom Dictionary and generate a new one.
best, Martin Knakkergaard


I tried this when it was first suggested. It did seem to help with the typing slowness for a short time but the slowness comes back. Also the slowness affects everything including scrolling windows, moving through email with the spacebar, selecting folders, just about anything and everything to do with the program. When it gets too annoying I reboot and start again, it may remain quick for minutes, hours, even days and then the slowness returns. When I brought this up a while back I thought I had it licked by upgrading URL Manager Pro (has a shared menu available in E'rage) but the slowness eventually returned. In fact I've got it again now as I've typed the last few words in the blind. Oh, and I've switched off spell checking for up to two days, hard for me as bad as I speel, but the slowdown came back anyway eventually. Weird.

Jim 

"Entourage Conduit" failed (error = #16388)

[Roger Turpin]

Title: "Entourage Conduit" failed (error = #16388)



I have just started having a problem when I Hot Sync - Entourage Conduit synchronization failed
"Entourage Conduit" failed (error = #16388)
I’ve never had a problem before. Has anyone had this problem?



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Re: Why Does E-Rage Slow Down?

[Jim Baskins]

Title: Re: Why Does E-Rage Slow Down?



On 8/27/01 4:22 AM, Martin Knakkergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Mark Deniken skrev d. 26.08.2001 20:58:

on 7/14/01 10:04 AM, Mac Carter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Can anyone tell me why E-rage sometimes slows down to a crawl?  I referring to the sporadic times when the cursor slows down to about half the speed of my typing (and I’m not real fast).  As I type this, it’s like a slug.  I have to pause to wait for the cursor to catch up.  Very frustrating.  Re-starting always clears it up, but is there anything else that might be causing it that can be fixed?

I know this thread was from a while back but I am having the exact same issue.  I didn’t see any solutions to it from the posts I read, anyone have any success eliminating it?  I’m using a G4/450DP, OS 9.2.1 with  1.12GB of RAM and have allocated about 64MB to entourage, but I don’t think this is a memory issue.  Does anyone have the email address for entourage support?

Mark Deniken •
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Think Different 

It’s almost certain that Spell Checking is the culprit.
Try switching it off. If it helps throw away the Custom Dictionary and generate a new one.
best, Martin Knakkergaard


I tried this when it was first suggested. It did seem to help with the typing slowness for a short time but the slowness comes back. Also the slowness affects everything including scrolling windows, moving through email with the spacebar, selecting folders, just about anything and everything to do with the program. When it gets too annoying I reboot and start again, it may remain quick for minutes, hours, even days and then the slowness returns. When I brought this up a while back I thought I had it licked by upgrading URL Manager Pro (has a shared menu available in E'rage) but the slowness eventually returned. In fact I've got it again now as I've typed the last few words in the blind. Oh, and I've switched off spell checking for up to two days, hard for me as bad as I speel, but the slowdown came back anyway eventually. Weird.

Jim 

Re: Why Does E-Rage Slow Down?

[Martin Knakkergaard]

Title: Re: Why Does E-Rage Slow Down?



Mark Deniken skrev d. 26.08.2001 20:58:

on 7/14/01 10:04 AM, Mac Carter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Can anyone tell me why E-rage sometimes slows down to a crawl?  I referring to the sporadic times when the cursor slows down to about half the speed of my typing (and I’m not real fast).  As I type this, it’s like a slug.  I have to pause to wait for the cursor to catch up.  Very frustrating.  Re-starting always clears it up, but is there anything else that might be causing it that can be fixed?

I know this thread was from a while back but I am having the exact same issue.  I didn’t see any solutions to it from the posts I read, anyone have any success eliminating it?  I’m using a G4/450DP, OS 9.2.1 with  1.12GB of RAM and have allocated about 64MB to entourage, but I don’t think this is a memory issue.  Does anyone have the email address for entourage support?

Mark Deniken •
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Think Different 

It’s almost certain that Spell Checking is the culprit.
Try switching it off. If it helps throw away the Custom Dictionary and generate a new one.
best, Martin Knakkergaard

Re: Why Does E-Rage Slow Down?

[Allen Watson]

Seems to me I recall at least one person solving this problem by replacing
their user dictionary for spell check. I don't know if that was the custom
dictionary or the main one. I may be making this up, though.

On or near 8/26/01 11:58 AM, Mark Deniken at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> on 7/14/01 10:04 AM, Mac Carter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone tell me why E-rage sometimes slows down to a crawl?  I referring
>> to
>> the sporadic times when the cursor slows down to about half the speed of my
>> typing (and I¹m not real fast).  As I type this, it¹s like a slug.  I have to
>> pause to wait for the cursor to catch up.  Very frustrating.  Re-starting
>> always clears it up, but is there anything else that might be causing it that
>> can be fixed?
>> 
> I know this thread was from a while back but I am having the exact same
> issue.  I didn¹t see any solutions to it from the posts I read, anyone have
> any success eliminating it?  I¹m using a G4/450DP, OS 9.2.1 with  1.12GB of
> RAM and have allocated about 64MB to entourage, but I don¹t think this is a
> memory issue.  Does anyone have the email address for entourage support?
> 
> Mark Deniken •
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Think Different 
> 
> 

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