how to maintain your entourage (outlook for mac)

i hate microshaft’s “culture of programming” and unfortunately it gets carried over to the mac versions of their programs as well.

but some of us have to live with it. namely if you work in a MS / exchnage majority office. so, you have to maintain those ….

recently i had to purge my mailbox due to IT’s retarded 300mb size cap, but in the process i found some usefull techniques of keeping your entourage in good health:

1. how to archive your mailbox – search for “Microsoft User Data” & then “Office xxxx Identities” to find the identify folder

2. i deleted 200mb worth of email, but … identity folder remained at the same size?! – COMPRESS entourage db – let me save you some time here:
- start entourage while holding OPTION key
- choose “Compact database” – it will compact your db by 30-60% and make a backup of the old one … so, once you’ll make a backup of a backup – you can delete it

3. search doesn’t seem to work any more … (i’m still trying to fix this one), but theoritically this could be done by: preferences / spotlight / “rebuild”