Performance Problems When Large Projects Exist

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Matthew Scholz

I have a pretty fast machine (Dual 1.25Ghz G4) that is unbearably sluggish
when doing anything in Entourage 2004 even composing a short email causes
the "beach ball of death" to spin for 30 seconds every other line or so.

I suspect the culprit is a large shared project - it contains about 4500
contacts and a fair number of calendar items.

I haven't been able to find any information on Entourage optimization or
what kind of load the Project center can support on the Mactopia or MVP
websites. The shared project lives on a fast NAS device which the machines
connect to via fast ethernet. There are 3 machines accessing the project but
there aren't usually a lot of changes to the data being made.

Can anyone help me?



- Matt
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

I suspect the culprit is a large shared project - it contains about 4500
contacts and a fair number of calendar items.
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Yeah, that's probably it :-\ Especially if each contact is linked to numerous
e-mails. It makes Office generate a huge database it has to work with in all
Office apps.
I started of by doing the same thing you did and then decided to only link
contact to projects when it was really important. Th rest of the time I use
filters to properly organize the corresponding e-mails.
I haven't been able to find any information on Entourage optimization or
what kind of load the Project center can support on the Mactopia or MVP
websites. The shared project lives on a fast NAS device which the machines
connect to via fast ethernet. There are 3 machines accessing the project but
there aren't usually a lot of changes to the data being made.
Click to expand...

I don't think there is much you can do to optimize that :-(

Corentin
 
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