Entourage Database

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drdan

When you delete your messages from the "Deleted Items" folder, does the
database file actually decrease in size (MB)? My experience is that
when I delete several thousand messages and rebuild the database, I do
not see a corresponding decrease in size of the database file. Dan
 
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matt neuburg

drdan said:
When you delete your messages from the "Deleted Items" folder, does the
database file actually decrease in size (MB)?
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No. You have to compact the database.
My experience is that
when I delete several thousand messages and rebuild the database, I do
not see a corresponding decrease in size of the database file.
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Really? When I compact the database, it definitely gets smaller. It
sounds to me like the problem might be that you are *not* deleting some
huge messages elsewhere. To give a simple example, let's say you send
out some big attachments. Those attachments are now in the database (in
the sent items folder). If you never delete those messages, or at least
strip off the attachments, your database will be huge because of them,
and merely deleting a few thousand tiny text messages will be
insignificant in comparison. m.
 
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Craig Deutsch

Speaking of database size, is there a general rule about how large it can be
before performance takes a hit -- or is it really insignificant? My user
database is about 700MB.

Actually,the slowest thing Entourage does is render HTML messages when it (I
guess) has to go out to the Internet and load stuff for the preview pane.
 
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drdan

Matt, thanks for the suggestion about deleting the attachments from the
sent items. Dan
 
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Barry Wainwright

Speaking of database size, is there a general rule about how large it can be
before performance takes a hit -- or is it really insignificant? My user
database is about 700MB.
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No specific size affecting performance in the latest versions. The number of
messages in an individual mail folder used to have quite an effect when it
went above about 10,000 messages, but even that seems greatly improved in
v2004.

Currently my main database is just over 4Gb, and performance is no different
to a test database that runs at around the same size as yours.
 
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Craig Deutsch

Barry, thanks for your reply on this.

Craig


No specific size affecting performance in the latest versions. The number of
messages in an individual mail folder used to have quite an effect when it
went above about 10,000 messages, but even that seems greatly improved in
v2004.

Currently my main database is just over 4Gb, and performance is no different
to a test database that runs at around the same size as yours.
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dixonbm

When my father compacted his database information was missing. Is ther
any way to retrieve this information

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Mickey Stevens

Probably not, though an actual Rebuild might restore information in the
database that isn't showing up for some reason.
 
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