One of my user's database in Entourage 2004 was 5.13GB. I stripped all
the attachments out and it made very little difference. I then
compacted the database and it is now 8.5GB, anyone have any clue
what's going on?
I have seen a few occasions where data was merged from the old database with
the rebuild. This shows as a database with approx twice the size. I would
try to find a good backup copy of the database and work off of a duplicate
of it to try rebuilding again.In your case the backup copy of the database
that was created might be compromised.
Like many file systems & databases, deleting a message in Entourage only
deletes the index entry, and the actual disk space occupied by the message
is left intact as a 'hole' in the database, and will remain like that until
the space is re-used by fresh incoming content. Entourage will overwrite the
space you¹ve created (by deleting your old messages) when new messages
arrive, so in other words, your database will remain the same size for some
time, until all the freed space has effectively been overwritten.
You can use the 'compact' function of the database utility to create a new
copy of the database without any holes.
