On Tuesday 12/16/08 8:12 PM, "Douglas Christopherson" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Does dragging to desktop as MBOX-format text file,
> then deleting Entourage messages, contacts, etc.,
> save much space in Office 2004 for Mac database?

A plain text mail message is about 4k in size. Very very tiny.

Moving them out of Entourage to your Desktop probably won't save you any
space. And to recoup that space you would have to drag your messages out and
then use the Database Utility to compact your Database, which can take a
while depending on the size of your Database.

If you're concerned about space then consider removing attachments,
especially from messages you've sent yourself. You already have them
somewhere already.

Or consider just getting a larger hard drive. Space is cheap these days.

Hope this helps!

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>


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