Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: Exchange

I just rebuilt my identity in entourage because it had grown to about 30GB over time. I got it down to about 7 or 8GB's and it just started growing again about a GB our two a day. In less than a week I'm right back to where I started.  Is this normal? what can I do to keep this from growing so quickly it's eating up all the resources.

On 2010-04-02 11:45:33 -0400, jace11416@officeformac.com said:

> Exchange I just rebuilt my identity in entourage because it had grown 
> to about 30GB over time. I got it down to about 7 or 8GB's and it just 
> started growing again about a GB our two a day. In less than a week I'm 
> right back to where I started. Is this normal? what can I do to keep 
> this from growing so quickly it's eating up all the resources.

It's definitively NOT normal.
You should select the root of the account and ctrl-click it to get to 
the properties. From there you can see the size of each folder.
Try to see where the problem is. It could be a problem of 
self-duplicating contacts or events for instance.

Is the account the same size on the server too or is it just in Entourage?

Corentin

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It looks like it's just in entourage thanks for the tip. I'll take a look there and let  you now what I find.

On 2010-04-02 14:15:52 -0400, jace11416@officeformac.com said:

>  looks like it's just in entourage thanks for the tip. I'll take a look 
> there and let you now what I find.

From the same dialog I was mentioning, you can select to purge the 
Exchange cache. That might do the trick (but will trigger a redownload 
of everything).

Corentin


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On 4/2/10 12:01 PM, Corentin_Cras-M�neur@officeformac.com wrote:
>  From the same dialog I was mentioning, you can select to purge the
> Exchange cache. That might do the trick (but will trigger a redownload
> of everything).

If you are going to have to download everything again, you might want to 
consider creating a new Identity and then let Entourage download 
everything. If you have info under folders "On My Computer" you would 
need to export those as .rge file to import into the new Identity.

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I can't open Entourage at all.  &quot;Can't open w/ this identity.&quot; <br><br>Which identity? <br><br>How do I change it?  Who's that dancing with my daughter?  Where's my car keys?  How do I get out of here? <br><br>A new identity might not be a bad idea anyway.  I'm kind of tired of being me.

On 2010-04-02 20:19:36 -0400, Raoul@officeformac.com said:

> I can't open Entourage at all. "Can't open w/ this identity."
> 
> Which identity?

I would assume the Main identity. The default one Entourage creates 
when you first launch it.
You get this warning with very corrupted identities or when you 
downgrade (eg: reinstall Office 2008 without applying any update and 
launch Entourage).

Corentin



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