This morning, I finally did something that Dianne suggested earlier this year: I made a copy of my MUD folder, renamed it "2003 MUD", burned a copy for backup, then went into the new Main Identity, and deleted almost every email and attachment, except for the past 30 days, and stuff that was important to have on hand (like current projects). I'll tell you, Entourage sure is snappy with a 12 Meg MUD, vs "last year's" 640Meg behemoth.
I think I did this correctly, or at least the way Dianne and others had suggested. Here's my method of slimming my new Main Identity: ** Do a find for all messages older than 30 days. Delete them, with the exception of those in current project folders that I wanted active. ** Do a find for all messages with attachments over 500K. Delete the attachments. ** I then went back into the Deleted Items folder, and re-deleted all messages over 30 days. ** I rebuilt this Main Identity, and restarted. Hmm. Same size as the original 640 Megs. I could not figure this out, but I eventually just did an Advanced Rebuild, and it shrank magically to 12 Megs. Anyone add anything? I must say, I really like this idea. I can always go access any of my info from last year, simply by changing Identities. And I think that starting each year with a barebones MUD is going to save me lots of trouble in the coming year. Entourage sure is zippy! (on a G5 dualie, 2gigs RAM) -- 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/>
