Background Processing blocks Entourage Use

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spark

Here's my problem, which I hope someone can help with:
At least once per day (and probably more often) my 1.5g G4 Powerbook
will begin some type of intense background processing which will take
approximately 5 minutes to complete; I have no idea what it's doing
during this time, but it happens *every day*. During the time of this
processing, the computer's functionality in most applications is slowed
but, still, all programs work...except for Entourage. In Entourage, the
program is completely frozen during this time: the mouse moves but
nothing else is functional. If I click to another Office application
(or any other application), they work fine...but not Entourage.

When I say that this happens every day, I mean absolutely every day; no
exception. It doesn't matter if I'm on a network or not. While this
churning takes place (and I can clearly hear it) I am unable to use
Entourage; when it's completed, everything (including Entourage) works
perfectly, as if nothing had happened.

I thought that upgrading to 11.2.3 would be a solution; no luck. (The
Mac runs 10.4.6, but this problem preceded this.)

Three questions: (1) what is the background processing?, (2) how can I
get it to stop (or at least minimize it)?, (3) if I have to live with
it, how can I get Entourage to be functional during the time that it's
going on?

Thanks.
Steve
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

spark said:
Here's my problem, which I hope someone can help with:
At least once per day (and probably more often) my 1.5g G4 Powerbook
will begin some type of intense background processing which will take
approximately 5 minutes to complete; I have no idea what it's doing
during this time, but it happens *every day*.
Click to expand...

I've seen that in two situations:
- Huge Exchange accounts
- Entourage used with projects and numerous e-mail addresses bound to
it: once in a while, Entourage tracks all the zillion e-mails
corresponding to these addresses.

Does any of these two situation sound familiar ?? If yes, there isn't
much you can do beside
- reducing the size of your Exchange account :-\
- not adding addresses to projects :-(

Corentin
 
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Carter Crain

I had this problem along with a few others. Looking at activity monitor the
Database Daemon was using all the cpu capacity. I wound up force quitting
both that and Entourage. Then opening it again.

Rebuilding did not make any difference. I created a new identity and
*laboriously* transferred everything over to the new identity. Categories
and a few other things did not transfer.

I do not have those kinds of freezes any more [I turned Sync services on for
addresses and it took a while to do that but not too bad subsequently.]

Carter
 
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