On 7/22/02 5:45 PM, "Beth Rosengard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:58:51 -0400 Helen Glazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > The computer may not yet be, as Beth put it above, "broke" by having this > stuff sitting there, but on the other hand, a lot of those deleted items > have attachments with the hallmarks of the SirCam and Klez virus. Those > attachments are unopened, true, but I want them utterly gone--and I don't > want to store hundreds of MBs of stuff I've already deleted. Or is there a > place to set the size limit of the Entourage databases for the various > identities so that they automatically get overwritten regularly without a > rebuild? If so, please share what you know. Thanks! > > Hi Helen, > > Others have already clarified and reiterated the point I made initially, > namely that while items you "delete" from the Deleted Items folder (by > whatever means) remain in the database until overwritten, there is no reason > to do a Typical Rebuild on a regular basis, precisely because the space they > occupy in the database *will* be overwritten. This is a very efficient method > of handling the database, I think, especially considering that you always have > the option to rebuild when necessary (such as when getting too close to the > 2GB limit in Entourage 2001). > > However no one has yet responded to the point you made about not wanting > infected attachments in your database (even though they can't hurt you). I > believe you can create a rule to strip attachments upon deletion. > Unfortunately, I am on the road reading this list via a web interface instead > of Entourage (boy, do I miss my Mac and my Entourage!) so I can't look at the > Rules criteria to tell you exactly how to do this at the moment. Hopefully > someone else will jump in here and explain it if you have trouble figuring it > out for yourself. Well if I understand those who replied to my post (and thanks to you all!) the infected attachments disappear when I empty the Deleted Items folder. Only the space in the database remains, but it's an empty space, set aside for use by Entourage when some more e-mails with attachments come in. I also gather that it is possible that the database size will reach an equilibrium between incoming and deleted items so a rebuild may not be needed for a long time. As far as what you suggest above, the only thing I can see to do is to open each message individually, highlight any attachments, and click on the red "X" by the word "Remove" to the right of the list of attachments. I did a little experiment where I removed a 1 MB attachment from an Entourage message, moved the item to Deleted Items, and emptied the Deleted Items folder. Following that, nothing was in the Trash on my Desktop, which makes me think that removing the attachment before deletion probably was handled entirely within Entourage and didn't affect the size or composition of the database. But someone who really knows what's going on here can comment if I'm wrong. But there was one other reason I did the rebuild: because the drop-down list of addresses of people who have sent you e-mail (the list that pops up when you type a few letters in the To field) got so bloated it no longer served a useful purpose. Note that most of the people in the list were NOT in my Address Book, and were not being added to the Address Book itself automatically, only to that drop-down list of recent correspondents. The list includes the motley assortment of spammers who have sent junk e-mail over the past few weeks, and with up to 10 coming in here a day they are overwhelming the useful addresses. It would be great if I could a) limit inclusion only to people I replied to or b) selectively delete individual addresses from that list periodically until it's time for a rebuild for disk space reasons. Second choice would be to turn that add-senders-to-the-drop-down-list feature off, although I do find it useful sometimes. Couldn't find a darned thing about this in "Help" either. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Helen Glazer, Webmaster George Glazer Gallery Antique Globes, Maps & Prints http://www.georgeglazer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � -- 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/>
