Entourage 2004 total size

Hi,

How can I find out how many GBs my Entourage 2004 folders are
consuming at this point? If I get info it only tells me the size of
the application (10.7 MB).

What is the effective working limit of Entourage?

Tony

Jolly
Thu Jun 07 22:39:26 CDT 2007

On 2007-06-07 17:27:30 -0500, tonereef <tonereef@gmail.com> said:

> How can I find out how many GBs my Entourage 2004 folders are
> consuming at this point? If I get info it only tells me the size of
> the application (10.7 MB).

Get Info on the /Users/you/Documents/Microsoft User Data folder.

> What is the effective working limit of Entourage?

Not sure, but my Entourage identity's database is 2.16 GB, and all is well.

--
JR

tonereef
Fri Jun 08 13:20:49 CDT 2007

On Jun 7, 8:39 pm, Jolly Roger <jollyro...@R.E.M.O.V.E.pobox.com>
wrote:
> On 2007-06-07 17:27:30 -0500, tonereef <toner...@gmail.com> said:
>
> > How can I find out how many GBs my Entourage 2004 folders are
> > consuming at this point? If I get info it only tells me the size of
> > the application (10.7 MB).
>
> Get Info on the /Users/you/Documents/Microsoft User Data folder.
>
> > What is the effective working limit of Entourage?
>
> Not sure, but my Entourage identity's database is 2.16 GB, and all is well.
>
> --
> JR


So it would be the Office 2004 Identities/Main Identity/Database file?
In which case it's over 7 GB.

Jolly
Fri Jun 08 13:38:20 CDT 2007

On 2007-06-08 13:20:49 -0500, tonereef <tonereef@gmail.com> said:

> So it would be the Office 2004 Identities/Main Identity/Database file?
> In which case it's over 7 GB.

Yep. I'd say it's time to compact that database - that's huge. To
compact it, ensure you have a recent backup of your identity, then run
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Database Utility and follow
the directions for compacting.

--
JR

Diane
Fri Jun 08 20:55:26 CDT 2007

On 6/7/07 3:27 PM, in article
1181255250.967081.163430@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "tonereef"
<tonereef@gmail.com> wrote:

> How can I find out how many GBs my Entourage 2004 folders are
> consuming at this point? If I get info it only tells me the size of
> the application (10.7 MB).
>
> What is the effective working limit of Entourage?

The Entourage 2004 database has no size limit, just a limit to the number of
items in the Entourage database: 2 million database items.

Note: Database items, not Entourage objects (such as messages, contacts,
events, etc.). Dave Cortright, Entourage developer, explains it this way: An
email or news message is actually TWO database items, and for anyone with
near a million Entourage objects (messages, contacts, events, etc.), they
will almost all be messages - the other stuff will be "loose change". So the
limit is effectively just under 1 million messages. Entourage will notify
you if you ever approach the limit.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Craig
Thu Jun 21 06:48:06 CDT 2007

So can you determine how many db objects in an account?

Regards
Craig.


On 9/6/07 02:55, in article C28F569E.56179%dross@nospam.mvps.org.invalid,
"Diane Ross" <dross@nospam.mvps.org.invalid> wrote:

> On 6/7/07 3:27 PM, in article
> 1181255250.967081.163430@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "tonereef"
> <tonereef@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How can I find out how many GBs my Entourage 2004 folders are
>> consuming at this point? If I get info it only tells me the size of
>> the application (10.7 MB).
>>
>> What is the effective working limit of Entourage?
>
> The Entourage 2004 database has no size limit, just a limit to the number of
> items in the Entourage database: 2 million database items.
>
> Note: Database items, not Entourage objects (such as messages, contacts,
> events, etc.). Dave Cortright, Entourage developer, explains it this way: An
> email or news message is actually TWO database items, and for anyone with
> near a million Entourage objects (messages, contacts, events, etc.), they
> will almost all be messages - the other stuff will be "loose change". So the
> limit is effectively just under 1 million messages. Entourage will notify
> you if you ever approach the limit.

Diane
Fri Jun 22 20:34:55 CDT 2007

There is no way that I know about. If you select your database file in the
Finder are you saying it's only (10.7 MB)?

YOUR USER'S FOLDER/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2004 Identities/Main
Identity/Database

--
Diane

> From: Craig Roberts <craigroberts@jkr.co.uk>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:48:06 +0100
> Subject: Re: Entourage 2004 total size
>
> So can you determine how many db objects in an account?
>
> Regards
> Craig.
>
>
> On 9/6/07 02:55, in article C28F569E.56179%dross@nospam.mvps.org.invalid,
> "Diane Ross" <dross@nospam.mvps.org.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 6/7/07 3:27 PM, in article
>> 1181255250.967081.163430@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "tonereef"
>> <tonereef@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How can I find out how many GBs my Entourage 2004 folders are
>>> consuming at this point? If I get info it only tells me the size of
>>> the application (10.7 MB).
>>>
>>> What is the effective working limit of Entourage?
>>
>> The Entourage 2004 database has no size limit, just a limit to the number of
>> items in the Entourage database: 2 million database items.
>>
>> Note: Database items, not Entourage objects (such as messages, contacts,
>> events, etc.). Dave Cortright, Entourage developer, explains it this way: An
>> email or news message is actually TWO database items, and for anyone with
>> near a million Entourage objects (messages, contacts, events, etc.), they
>> will almost all be messages - the other stuff will be "loose change". So the
>> limit is effectively just under 1 million messages. Entourage will notify
>> you if you ever approach the limit.
>