Unofficial poll on size of database

[Diane Ross]

Just curious as to the size of database users have. To find the size, open
the Microsoft User Data folder in your Documents folder. Look inside your
Identity folder ( eg. Office X Identities, Office 2004 Identities ) and
locate your current Identity (named Main by default,click on the database
file in column view in the Finder and you'll see the size listed.

For example a new blank Identity is 18.1 MB

My database is 658 MB. How large is your database?

 

[Fred Evans]

230.7 MB

Fred Evans
Powerbook G4 1.67 GHZ, 15", 1GB RAM, 10.4.10

 

[Mark Ritter]

Mine's 596 mb.

Mark Ritter

 

[Richard E. Lanning]

Just curious as to the size of database users have. To find the size, open
the Microsoft User Data folder in your Documents folder. Look inside your
Identity folder ( eg. Office X Identities, Office 2004 Identities ) and
locate your current Identity (named Main by default,click on the database
file in column view in the Finder and you'll see the size listed.

For example a new blank Identity is 18.1 MB

My database is 658 MB. How large is your database?

37.1 MB

Richard Lanning

 

[Jolly Roger]

Just curious as to the size of database users have. To find the size, open
the Microsoft User Data folder in your Documents folder. Look inside your
Identity folder ( eg. Office X Identities, Office 2004 Identities ) and
locate your current Identity (named Main by default,click on the database
file in column view in the Finder and you'll see the size listed.

For example a new blank Identity is 18.1 MB

My database is 658 MB. How large is your database?

I have two identities (one for home with several POP accounts, and
another for work with one Exchange account):

955 MB (Home - POP)
2.2 GB (Work - Exchange)

 

[Joel McIntosh]

Just curious as to the size of database users have. To find the size, open
the Microsoft User Data folder in your Documents folder. Look inside your
Identity folder ( eg. Office X Identities, Office 2004 Identities ) and
locate your current Identity (named Main by default,click on the database
file in column view in the Finder and you'll see the size listed.

For example a new blank Identity is 18.1 MB

My database is 658 MB. How large is your database?

2.43 GB

I've got most of my mail going back to 2002, so the file is pretty large.

Spotlight is a wonderful way to find messages in all this (14,000 inbox,
12,000 sent messages.

 

[Diane Ross]

My database is 658 MB. How large is your database?

Thanks for the replies so far. I hope this helps users see what size others
are using. We often get questions about size and how large is large? Keep
sending them in so we get a good sample.

 

[William Smith]

Just curious as to the size of database users have. To find the size, open
the Microsoft User Data folder in your Documents folder. Look inside your
Identity folder ( eg. Office X Identities, Office 2004 Identities ) and
locate your current Identity (named Main by default,click on the database
file in column view in the Finder and you'll see the size listed.

For example a new blank Identity is 18.1 MB

My database is 658 MB. How large is your database?

1.16GB

bill

 

[patrick j]

How large is your database?

45.7 MB

but I only started using Entourage a couple of months ago.

 

[loupage]

Just curious as to the size of database users have. To find the size, open
the Microsoft User Data folder in your Documents folder. Look inside your
Identity folder ( eg. Office X Identities, Office 2004 Identities ) and
locate your current Identity (named Main by default,click on the database
file in column view in the Finder and you'll see the size listed.

For example a new blank Identity is 18.1 MB

My database is 658 MB. How large is your database?

977 MB

 

[Neil]

My database is 658 MB. How large is your database?

Used at work, it's 1.08Gb.

-neil
www.neilbert.com

 

[aRKay]

Used at work, it's 1.08Gb.

-neil
www.neilbert.com

5.38 GB

aRKay

 

[Mark R Harrison]

Thanks for the replies so far. I hope this helps users see what size others
are using. We often get questions about size and how large is large? Keep
sending them in so we get a good sample.

1.09 GB

Save mostly personal ­ back to 2001

Thanks

 

[The Hennessys]

3.82 GB work (Exchange)
380 MB personal (.Mac via POP)

 

[The Hennessys]

To further clarify,

3.82 GB is for '07 & '06
834 MB is in offline mbox archives for '05
734 MB is in offline mbox archives for '04
535 MB is in offline mbox archives for '03

Interesting trend. I attribute the growth in PPT attachments in emails and
meeting notices as my gut feeling is individual Email message volume would
not account for such growth. I also deleted calendar entries back beyond
'06 which do contain a lot of PPT and other MS attachments. This keeps the
Exchange server max storage for hitting the corporate IT limits for online
email account storage.

Speaking of which, I have never found an easy way to bulk delete
appointments and events, so I end up doing a lot of repetitive delete and
click operations (usually during a tedious conference call I find myself on
in January of February of each year ;-) ).

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

Just curious as to the size of database users have. To find the size, open
the Microsoft User Data folder in your Documents folder. Look inside your
Identity folder ( eg. Office X Identities, Office 2004 Identities ) and
locate your current Identity (named Main by default,click on the database
file in column view in the Finder and you'll see the size listed.

For example a new blank Identity is 18.1 MB

My database is 658 MB. How large is your database?

3 identities:
2.4Gb
1.57Gb
6.0Gb

 

[Diane Ross]

5.38 GB

The largest one reported so far. Seems I remember someone reporting they had
a 9 GB database. Now that one I would consider large.

Keep on sending in your database size. Thanks to everyone that has
participated so far.

 

[Diane Ross]

Speaking of which, I have never found an easy way to bulk delete
appointments and events, so I end up doing a lot of repetitive delete and
click operations (usually during a tedious conference call I find myself on
in January of February of each year ;-) ).

Try a custom view in the Calendar window.

 

[Michel Bintener]

340 MB.

Just curious as to the size of database users have. To find the size, open
the Microsoft User Data folder in your Documents folder. Look inside your
Identity folder ( eg. Office X Identities, Office 2004 Identities ) and
locate your current Identity (named Main by default,click on the database
file in column view in the Finder and you'll see the size listed.

For example a new blank Identity is 18.1 MB

My database is 658 MB. How large is your database?

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

 

[avatar2k]

340 MB.





--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

3.5 GB