No. Nobody much has used OE in 4 years or so. At least not the people who were on the mailing list. We've all been using Entourage since 2000. I think we get about 3 messages per year here now. Once upon a time it was 500 per week.
He hit the limit, and shouldn't have. (Entourage X SR-1 warned you when you were getting close, by the way. Entourage 2004 has no limit.) There's not much to be done. OE has a separate Messages file in the Documents/Microsoft User Data/Identities/Main Identity (or named) folder,. You can open it in a text editor like BBEdit or Tex-Edit Plus. Most of it is text. You can salvage a lot of it as message text plus headers. It's too late to delete anything. Finished, kaput. He can salvage the text and make a new identity. If he's an executive, why the hell isn't he using Entourage? What's he doing with an outmoded, defunct piece of freeware (decent though it is). He should upgrade to OS X if he hasn't yet and get Office2004. I bet he even has some version of Office already - how could he manage without Word? So he mist have Entourage sitting there, unless he's still using Word 98 or 6. Why haven't you advised him to upgrade to Entourage? -- Paul Berkowitz > From: Laurie Pasion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Mac Outlook Express Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:36:30 -1000 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: FW: Mail Datafile Too Large > > Got no response to the below, maybe because I sent it BEFORE I was > subscribed to this list. So trying again. Is anybody out there? > > ---------- > From: Laurie Pasion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:31:53 -1000 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Mail Datafile Too Large > > Aloha, > There is a 2Gb size limit on the messages datafile for Outlook Express 5.02 > for the Mac. I have a user with a 1.99Gb file and he can no longer open or > delete any messages. We've tried moving the messages to an archive folder > on his desktop - they are copied there, but they won't delete from his mail > folders. We've tried deleting both single messages and groups of messages > from his 'deleted items' folder but they won't go away. Each action results > in an error dialog that says "Disk Full.' He's on Mac OS 9.2. He's run > Norton Disk Doctor and Optimize, and has half of his large hard drive free, > so the message is bogus. Messages aren't being saved at the server, they're > only on his hard drive, and there ought to be space if it weren't for the > 2Gb limit. > > Anyone know any secrets for deleting messages when the file size is this > large? I know one solution would be to create a new identity for him, but > he's already done that in the past (because of this same reason) and has two > identities for his mail. He's an executive, and actually does need to save > this much mail. I know, I know... he should have been archiving > periodically. Maybe after this he will. > > Many Mahalos, > Laurie Pasion > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To search the archives: <http://athena.doe.com> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://athena.doe.com>
