20gb Entourage Database file

[Guest]

Hello, I am using an iBook G3 600 with a 40gb HD as my daily e-mail and communications computer. Last week Entourage told me my database was corrupt and needed to be rebuilt. So I tried the rebuild function which consistantly failed saying not enough room. SO I deleted all my data from the lap top and gave it 14gb of breathing room as my database was 11gb.

When it got done with the rebuild, my database file had ballooned to 20.8gb so I opened Entourage and deleted over 20,000 saved e-mails and went to try to compact the database and it freezes saying not enough hard drive space. So now all I have on my HD is my system files and my app and my database file and it still does not have enough space.

Now I have gone out and bought an external 120gb HD and copied the database file to it, but Entourage does not recognize it to do a rebuild.

Any and all help is appreciated.

Thank you and Have a Great day!

Bill

 

[William Smith]

wrote:

Hello, I am using an iBook G3 600 with a 40gb HD as my daily e-mail and
communications computer. Last week Entourage told me my database was
corrupt and needed to be rebuilt. So I tried the rebuild function which
consistantly failed saying not enough room. SO I deleted all my data
from the lap top and gave it 14gb of breathing room as my database was
11gb.

When it got done with the rebuild, my database file had ballooned to
20.8gb so I opened Entourage and deleted over 20,000 saved e-mails and
went to try to compact the database and it freezes saying not enough
hard drive space. So now all I have on my HD is my system files and my
app and my database file and it still does not have enough space.

Now I have gone out and bought an external 120gb HD and copied the
database file to it, but Entourage does not recognize it to do a rebuild.

Hi Bill!

I'm afraid you'll need a lot of breathing room to do something like a
database rebuild or compact with a database that size. You should have
twice the size of your database in free space alone. That doesn't
include working space for your Mac OS system too, which works better
with 10% or more free disk space for itself.

I'm estimating you'll need at minimum 26GB free space on your 40GB
drive. You could possibly get by with a little less but I would actually
try to give it more to work optimally.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[Diane Ross]

Since you database ballooned in size it sounds like it failed during the
copy thus corrupting your database. Do you have an old database to use in
it's place? You will not be able to rebuild this corrupted database.

I always recommending that you duplicate your database before rebuilding in
these rare times when it fails and it doesn't create the backup that's part
of the rebuild process.