Has the Entourage dbase size limit been expanded?

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Chris Watson

The last I heard, Entourage 2004 had a database limit of 4GB but a colleague
says his is up over 8 GB. Does anyone know if the limit was expanded in a
recent Office update?
 
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Diane Ross

The last I heard, Entourage 2004 had a database limit of 4GB but a colleague
says his is up over 8 GB. Does anyone know if the limit was expanded in a
recent Office update?
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Entourage X has a 4 GB limit on the Database file. Entourage 2004 has no
size limit, just a limit to the number of items in the Entourage database: 2
million database items.

Note: Database items, not Entourage objects (such as messages, contacts,
events, etc.). Dave Cortright, Entourage developer explains it this way: An
email or news message is actually TWO database items, and for anyone with
near a million Entourage objects (messages, contacts, events, etc.), they
will almost all be messages - the other stuff will be "loose change". So the
limit is effectively just under 1 million messages. Entourage will notify
you if you ever approach the limit.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage
resources.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>
 
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