Entourage database file management

Entourage seems to save all attachments to email messages with them.
This reasults in the file becoming very large quickly in my
environment because I get drawings, pictures and other large
attachments regularly. Do people remove the files manually after they
are saved. I save them regularly. Or are there compression techniques
or orther -- that will allow me to use common technique of REGULARLY
backing up my home file. MY ENTOURAGE IDENTITY FILE IS 9GB, MY HOME
FILE IS 29GB AND MUCH OF THIS IS DUPLICATED INFORMATION

Diane
Sat Apr 28 16:32:56 CDT 2007

On 4/28/07 2:04 PM, in article
1177794286.043818.189030@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com, "beckac1@aol.com"
<beckac1@aol.com> wrote:

> Entourage seems to save all attachments to email messages with them.
> This reasults in the file becoming very large quickly in my
> environment because I get drawings, pictures and other large
> attachments regularly. Do people remove the files manually after they
> are saved. I save them regularly. Or are there compression techniques
> or orther -- that will allow me to use common technique of REGULARLY
> backing up my home file. MY ENTOURAGE IDENTITY FILE IS 9GB, MY HOME
> FILE IS 29GB AND MUCH OF THIS IS DUPLICATED INFORMATION

To keep current Identity lean, I suggest removing incoming attachments with
one of the "remove attachment" scripts. They will save, remove and link the
saved files to the message, so you can open the file directly from the
message.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/fav_scripts.html#favscript17>

<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/saveattachments20041.0.0.html>

Also remove your outgoing attachments with a rule. This is assuming your
outgoing attachments are stored elsewhere on your computer. No need to have
them duplicated and filling up your database.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule001.html>
--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

Barry
Sat Apr 28 16:41:17 CDT 2007

On 28/04/2007 22:04, in article
1177794286.043818.189030@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com, "beckac1@aol.com"
<beckac1@aol.com> wrote:

> Entourage seems to save all attachments to email messages with them.
> This reasults in the file becoming very large quickly in my
> environment because I get drawings, pictures and other large
> attachments regularly. Do people remove the files manually after they
> are saved. I save them regularly. Or are there compression techniques
> or orther -- that will allow me to use common technique of REGULARLY
> backing up my home file. MY ENTOURAGE IDENTITY FILE IS 9GB, MY HOME
> FILE IS 29GB AND MUCH OF THIS IS DUPLICATED INFORMATION
>

You could use an incoming mail rule to save attachments then delete them, or
you could look at scriptbuilders for a script called 'friendlier claris it'
which does a similar thing:

<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/friendlierclarisit1.10.html>

--
Barry

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