How to disable "cached mode" ?

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audio-one

Anyone know how to disable "cached mode" in entourage 2008?

I have only have a 70gb hard drive and don't want to fill it up with the email database.

Thanks a ton
 
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Diane Ross

Anyone know how to disable "cached mode" in entourage 2008?

I have only have a 70gb hard drive and don't want to fill it up with the email
database.
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Emptying the cache does not reduce the database size itself. The database
will be left with 'wasted' space in it every time you delete something.
However, this is not all bad, since the wasted space is used up with new
data as it is added. This way, over a period of time (assuming that you are
deleting stuff as you go) the database will probably reach an optimum size,
after which the stuff you delete is roughly equal to the stuff you add, and
no further growth takes place.

If you need to recover the wasted space on your hard disk, you will have to
do a 'typical' rebuild to compact the database. This will create a compacted
version of the database without the wasted space. You will then have to
manually delete the backup copies of the original database that the rebuild
process creates AFTER you are happy the new one is OK.

Tip: Rather than compacting and keeping a small database, create a large
database then delete messages in order to create a contiguous space on your
hard drive for your messages.

Think about your data being in one contiguous space rather than in bits
around your computer. Once your database has reached it's size as
established when you installed Entourage, the Finder will start writing your
data in bits around your drive. If you establish a large Entourage database
using large message files when you first set up your computer, you can then
delete excess messages and Entourage will reuse that space with new
messages. Think of this as creating a partition for Entourage.
 
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audio-one

Thanks for this detailed help.

What I was actually asking though - is how to disable the offline database completely.

You see, I don't need to access my email while offline. I would prefer to save the disk space and simply download all email headers each time I connect.

With Outlook, you disable "Use Cached Exchange Mode" to accomplish this. Any idea how to do this with Entourage?
 
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Diane Ross

What I was actually asking though - is how to disable the offline
database completely.

You see, I don't need to access my email while offline. I would prefer
to save the disk space and simply download all email headers each time
I connect.

With Outlook, you disable "Use Cached Exchange Mode" to accomplish
this. Any idea how to do this with Entourage?
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You must have a schedule to download your news. Under Tools in the Menu
bar, select Schedules. Delete News from the schedule. Be sure to check
under all schedules.

Once you have schedules disabled, you can simply click on the newsgroup
to download or set a schedule to download once a day.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/accounts/news.html#news_faqs>
 
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audio-one

????

Did you reply to the wrong post by mistake? :)

I do appreciate your help, but your answer had nothing to do with my question!
 
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William Smith

Thanks for this detailed help.

What I was actually asking though - is how to disable the offline
database completely.

You see, I don't need to access my email while offline. I would
prefer to save the disk space and simply download all email headers
each time I connect.

With Outlook, you disable "Use Cached Exchange Mode" to accomplish
this. Any idea how to do this with Entourage?
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Entourage does not have an "online" and "offline" mode for Exchange
Servers. Its nature is to synchronize -- only.

Please be sure to let Microsoft know you'd like to see the "online"
feature in future versions by using the Help --> Send Feedback mechanism
in any Office application.

Hope this helps!

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bill

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

Then why is there a function under the file menu called "work offline" ?

If what you're saying is that entourage simply doesn't have the option to work directly from the server without caching locally, then I get that.. I guess.
 
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