An AppleScript to monitor Entourage database growth

Mar 25, '04 09:57:00AM

Contributed by: spfolly

As a user of Entourage for newsgroup access, I like to keep an eye on the size of the database to make sure it doesn't grow too big. When I think it's too big, I empty the newsgroup caches and rebuild the database. I wrote an AppleScript that will keep an eye on the size of the database for me. It sends an email (via Entourage) to let me know when it's gotten too big.

The scheduling period is up to you. Personally, I have Entourage scheduled to run the script on Startup and every day at 1am (since I tend to leave my Mac on 24/7). But note that if you never rebuild your database, the script will continue to notify you, so you probably don't want it to run too often!

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