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Preventitive maintenance is your friend...
Authored by: mholve on Jan 24, '03 10:44:20AM
I've been using Entourage for quite some time now - about a year or so, since it came out. Regularly cleaning out your sent items some, maintaining good organization - along with the occasional rebuilding has kept things running perfectly, and quickly.

Once in a while, usually after a rebuild - I drag ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity/ (a folder) onto DropStuff to compress the files, then move the resulting archive to the other drive, or include it in normal backups for safe-keeping.

A final trick... The first time you option-click on Entourage to start up in rebuild mode, it may *censored* that you should close other MS apps first. No fret. That's the database daemon still running in the background (started by your login items prefpane). Option-click again, and you should be in.

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