On 20/10/03 2:29 am, "Jim Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My wife's email database is 954 Mbytes, even after rebuilding. It contains > about 65,000 items. > > What's the maximum database size? Should I be worried about hers? It seems > to work OK. > > Should I tell her to clean house (well, clean "disk" would be more correct, > I guess). > > Jim Robertson The maximum size for a database in Entourage vX after application of SR1 (which you have already done) is 4gb. You will get progressively more and more severe warnings as you approach this limit, and you will be prevented from adding more data when you reach the limit. Prior to SR1, the limit was 2gb and there were no warnings, and when you hit the limit the app crashed with loss of data. Things do slow down a little as the database increases, best thing to do to relieve this symptom is to keep the 'currently active' mail folders down below about 1,000 messages. Move older & infrequently accessed mail out to 'archive' folders that you almost never need to open. Keeping the most frequently used folders small in size will greatly help the impression of speed. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the Entourage FAQ pages? - Check them out: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> -- 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/>
