Hi Lloyd,
A tip from Macworld weekly that you might be interested in:
"If you're having problems with regular hangs/pauses in Entourage;
hangs that tie up the application with periods of heavy disk
activity, try turning off the background database check."
"Launch Entourage while holding down the Option key; Database Manager
is launched instead."
"Click Set Database Preferences. Uncheck background integrity checks."
Cheers,
Ronni
On 27/02/2007, at 12:27 PM, Lloyd White wrote:
Hi Neil,
Thanks for that. I found it difficult to move the problem file once
it is
there. Your suggestion would work well with new incoming files.
I solved the problem by sending myself a couple of emails and then
"selecting all" the messages in the preview pane and then deleting
them all.
The problem file went too. Selecting all, did not trigger it to open.
Simple once you think about it but it took my little brain a time
to come up
with it.
Lloyd
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Hi Lloyd,
While I've not had the problem of Entourage freezing, to be safe I
do like
to delete the spam without selecting the individual messages
(which would
display them in the preview pane).
The way I do it is to sort the window by a suitable column to
isolate the
message in its own category, then select the category and delete
that.
For example, in my case, I find that most of my spam is not just
addressed
to me but to some unknown person so I sort the window by the "to"
column and
then when I see a section to, say "flavia" with one (or more) spam
messages
in it I just select the heading "Flavia (1)" and hit the delete
button. You
could do the same thing by sorting on the "from" column and, in
your case,
selecting the "tania Immaisi" heading which should not select/
display the
specific message & should not (I think) freeze entourage - then
hit the
delete button.
In the event that the spam message is to my valid address and say
apparently
from one of my real contacts (due to address spoofing) so that
valid emails
appear under the same sort heading - I just sort by read/unread
status, make
sure I've already viewed the legitimate emails, then select
"unread" and
delete.
Hope that does it for you.
Neil
I know someone had this problem recently but I have forgotten how
it was
solved.
Using Entourage. Received an email from tania Immaisi called ³so
rude² -
with an attachment. The usual rubbish spam.
Before I could trash it the whole entourage froze and I needed to
restart.
Problem: how do I trash it without selecting it and freezing Entourage
again. When it freezes the whole system goes into time delay and it
takes
minutes to even force quit.
If I restart from my back-up start-up disk I will still need to start
Entourage to locate the file and it will freeze again.
Lloyd
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