Important work-around for Tiger Entourage slow-downs...

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greg

Many are experiencing problems with Entourage beachballing and pausing.
MacWindows has a solution below that has worked very well for me. Far
less disk activity and better performance, not just in Entourage, but
overall.

News Update, May 5

Spotlight cripples Entourage in Tiger: a fix is offered. May 5, 2005 --
Several readers verified the problem of Entourage in Tiger getting
stuck in "spinning beach ball" mode, which we reported on Tuesday.
Joe Selvaggi blames it on Spotlight and has a suggestion:

I am experiencing the spinning ball problem in Entourage since
upgrading to Tiger. There a corresponding sound (like frantic memory/
disk swapping activity) coming from my PowerBook. Apparently it's
Spotlight trying to index the Entourage Mail DB. Tell Spotlight to
ignore the Microsoft User Data folder (Users > Documents > Microsoft
User Data) should do the trick, or at least it appears to work.

http://macwindows.com/
 
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Barry Wainwright

That would make a lot of sense. Spotlight is presumably trying to re-index
the whole file every time it is updated. Since there is no advantage to be
gained from indexing the file (as spotlight cannot yet identify inside the
database) then eliminating the database from spotlight's indexation routines
will have no detrimental side effect.
 
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