Speaking as a user and not a MVP, I am extremely happy with the stability of Outlook 2011. Absolutely no crashes since Oct. 26th (when I installed 2011). The only time I have had to shut it down is to do today's update from MS. -- Tom Hart [email protected]
On 11/10/10 6:45 PM, "Diane Ross" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 11/10/10 2:15 PM, "Bob Johnston" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I support 55-60 Entourage 2008 users, and on average, I have to rebuild >>an >> Entourage 2008 database 3-4 times per month. Many times it's the same >>user >> and their database must be rebuilt a couple times in as many days. Very >> frustrating and time consuming, especially in a business environment. >>Our >> users average between 1GB - 20GB for their database, with the most >>common >> size about 3GB. > >First, rebuilding does not always fix all problems and the more you >rebuild >the worse you can make the problems. Export all data so you can get rid of >the corruption and importing that into a new Identity is the only way, but >it's very time consuming. For Exchange, you should rebuild but just >create a >new Identity and download from the server. >> >> Does anyone know if Outlook 2011 has a much more stable database >>structure? >> How does it compare to Entourage 2008 in database rebuild frequency? > >Totally different database. Read the info on these links for details. > >Outlook, Outlook, how does your Database grow? >http://bit.ly/9SVl8V > >Database Basics: >http://www.officeformachelp.com/outlook/database/ >> >> Are their any suggestions to database management to hopefully alleviate >> database rebuilds? > > >Keep inbox lean. This folder syncs more frequently than >any other and should be kept as clean as possible. I recommend no more >than a few hundred messages be kept there. You should not store any >messages within sub-folders in the Inbox. > >Optimize Entourage to better work with Exchange | OfficeforMacHelp.com > ><http://www.officeformachelp.com/2008/03/optimize_entourage_to_better_work >_w >ith_exchange/> > >In case the above link does not work: > ><http://tinyurl.com/28sbzac> > >-- >Diane > > >-- >YouTalk mailing list >List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html >List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] >To unsubscribe: >mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
