Suddenly expanding database

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Bruce Truax

This morning I had a problem with Entourage, the database daemon started
using all available CPU resources. I had to force quit Entourage to get
control back. I then did a verify on the database to see if there was a
problem. There was so I did a rebuild. The resulting database was about
550MB. I continued to have problems during the day and I had to rebuild one
more time at the end of the day. This time the database had increased to
698MB in size! I did not receive any significant emails today so it was not
emails. So I went and looked at my calendar events. Suddenly there are
91,600 calendar events! These are all in the one category which I
synchronize with the Exchange server at one of my clients. Some past events
have over 50 entries for the one event and many of the events are not even
in the particular category which is supposed to be sync'd!

I have been using Entourage 2004 for synchronization with this server for
months. This problem appears to have started today.

What happened? Does this sound like an Entourage problem or some weird
problem with the exchange server?


Bruce
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Bruce Truax said:
I have been using Entourage 2004 for synchronization with this server for
months. This problem appears to have started today.

What happened? Does this sound like an Entourage problem or some weird
problem with the exchange server?
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I sure don't know where the problem comes from, but I've experienced the
same thing. I deleted all these duplicated events (almost always
recurring events) including the original one and re-entered them
manually. Since then, the problem never showed up again on my Mac.

Corentin
 
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Bruce Truax

I did the same, and believe me when I tell you that it takes a while to
delete 90,000+ events!

Bruce
 
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Bruce Truax

OK. So I deleted the 90,000+ duplicate calendar events and as soon as I
connected to the Exchange server it started to put them back on my computer.
I would have thought that if I deleted events on my computer that the next
sync would have deleted these items from the server. I even told pressed
the Reset Synchronization button in the account settings. How do I fix
this? Do I need to tell the Exchanger server administrator to trash my
calendar data?

Bruce
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Bruce Truax said:
OK. So I deleted the 90,000+ duplicate calendar events and as soon as I
connected to the Exchange server it started to put them back on my computer.

Argghhh!!!

I would have thought that if I deleted events on my computer that the next
sync would have deleted these items from the server. I even told pressed
the Reset Synchronization button in the account settings. How do I fix
this? Do I need to tell the Exchanger server administrator to trash my
calendar data?
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O it might mean that the corruption comes from the server. Deleting all
these entries from the server through OWA is out of the question. Maybe
you could try through Outlook 2001 ??

Corentin
 
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