Office 2008, 12.0.1 Update not so good after all

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Cathalifaud

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
Email Client: Exchange

I just run the 12.0.1 updater for Office 2008 and strange things happened after it was done. So far, Entourage 08 uses up around 90% of the CPU when in the foreground (as supposed to about 15% max for version 2004) and it seems to be always busy writing (or reading) something from the main drive. I turned off Spotlight indexing and that did not change anything. Also, when looking at my email list it is constantly "blinking" on and off, as if one of the email messages is being deleted and immediately restored, very rapidly. This behavior started after the update only. Before this so called "fix" it all worked well. I am now back to using Entourage 2004.
 
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Stuart Long

Same problem here. I am using 12.0.1/Entourage/Exchange and if I have application running it will take as much CPU as it can get, routinely 80-95%, and keep it. If I hide the application then the usage drops to 1%. However it ramps right back up to around 90% as soon as I unhide it.

I run a MacBook - 2 Ghz with 2 GB of RAM. OS 10.4.11.

Please get this fixed! I use this every hour of everyday at work.
 
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Diane Ross

This is not normal. Try turning off Reminders to see if this stops the
problem. I'm thinking it's the database daemon....maybe corrupted somehow.
 
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Stuart Long

Diane,

That did it. The only problem is that I rely on reminders to keep me from missing meetings, so I cannot leave it off. Thanks for the suggestion though! I'll try a database repair.

Another fix that seemed to work was removing the preview pane.

-Stuart
 
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Diane Ross

I run a MacBook - 2 Ghz with 2 GB of RAM. OS 10.4.11.

This is not enough RAM IMHO. I highly suggest getting 4 GB of RAM. This
might not fix your problem, but it will be like getting a complete computer
upgrade.
 
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Ed Kimball

This is not enough RAM IMHO. I highly suggest getting 4 GB of RAM. This
might not fix your problem, but it will be like getting a complete computer
upgrade.
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Diane,

It depends on what you're doing. I have an MB Pro with 2 GB of RAM and
that's plenty for my use. I have Leopard, Entourage, Excel, and Safari open
and Activity Monitor shows I have nearly half a gig of free memory and
responsiveness is fine. BTW, Entourage is by far the biggest memory hog I
have open at the moment: 161 GB of real memory.

I would think that running Panther (10.4), 2 GB of RAM would be plenty.

My wife was complaining that her iBook G4 was very slow after I upgraded it
to Leopard. It had 0.75 GB of RAM and showed very little free memory in
Activity Monitor. I upgraded it to 1.25 GB (the most it will take,
unfortunately), and it seems to be much better. Activity Monitor shows a
couple of hundred MB free -- not a big cushion, but enough to work with. I'd
put more in if I could.

RAM upgrades (when available) are usually the most cost-effective way to
improve performance.
 
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Ivar Klaas

This is not enough RAM IMHO. I highly suggest getting 4 GB of RAM. This
might not fix your problem, but it will be like getting a complete computer
upgrade.
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Sorry to barge in like this but 2Ghz with 2GB should be more than enough for
anything but CS3. You are absolutely right Diane that 4GB would be like a
new computer (for only 50-80 Euro) but still! Entourage runs perfectly well
on a 2Ghz 2GB setup and so it should, 4GB is the absolute max at this time
and users should be able to run everything with 2GB.

Since I am fresh out of HO....

Ivar
 
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