The last time I checked, Netscape, which does keep messages in separate files, kept the attachment in the same file. Thus deleting the message from Netscape also took care of the attachments. Likewise, deleting the attachment from the message reduced the message file to only the allocation need to store the message text.
Since I have moved to keeping backups on a spare hard disk instead of burning CDs, the size of the database is less of an issue. The additional capabilities of Entourage are nice, but I am not convinced that these features must be implemented in a monolithic database. On the other hand, there is an appeal to having a database implementation, as this is in many ways highly structured data. -- Eric Hildum > From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:00:51 -0700 > To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Rebuilding E2001 Database > > On 7/23/02 12:15 PM, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Since you apparently empty the deleted items folder daily, you do not even >> need to remove the attachments, just delete the message, and everything will >> disappear when you empty the deleted items folder. That may save you some >> time and work. > > (Which is one of those things that is actually easier with Entourage's > "monolithic" database than with email clients that automatically save > attachments to disk. With that system you'd have to go looking for > everything twice to do delete things - the message and the attachment. To > make sure that you weren't deleting attachments you actually wanted to keep, > you'd have to check one by one. Unless there were a really sophisticated > linking mechanism that let you "delete all linked attachments of the message > you are about to delete?" which might be pretty slow.) -- 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/>
