Best approach to archiving >18GB database

[Bill Weylock]

After reading about all of the options for archiving emails, the only one
that has any appeal involves duplicating my current identity (18+GB) and
deleting old messages from the one I intend to keep using and new messaged
from the one I want to call my Archive.

Problems, however, duplicating a database that actually functions. Every
time I try it, I seem to get problems that require a database rebuild that
then fails.

Before I could use my 2004 database in 2008, I had to do a rebuild under
2004. So I don¹t think problems will antedate the creation of the current
database.

What might I be failing to do? What should I be careful to do and not do?

Finally, am I correct in my belief that any other method will result in loss
of full header information, most particularly the date and time the messages
were sent and received?

Thanks!!



Best,

Bill
Imac 2.8Ghz -10.5.1
Office 2008/2007 - Windows XP Pro SP2

 

[Diane Ross]

On 2/22/08 9:23 AM, in article C3E4451C.54679%[email protected], "Bill

Bill, using HTML and using colored fonts is best used in private emails.
Personally, it made the message very difficult for me to read. Thanks!

After reading about all of the options for archiving emails, the only one
that has any appeal involves duplicating my current identity (18+GB) and
deleting old messages from the one I intend to keep using and new messaged
from the one I want to call my Archive.

Problems, however, duplicating a database that actually functions. Every
time I try it, I seem to get problems that require a database rebuild that
then fails.

How are you duplicating? Do you create the duplicate in the Finder. Is that
database then unusable?

Bill, can you contact me off list? I'm working with a developer to track
down import problems like you are having. We could use your example to help
set up our process.

diane AT entourage dot mvps dot org

Before I could use my 2004 database in 2008, I had to do a rebuild under
2004. So I don¹t think problems will antedate the creation of the current
database.

What might I be failing to do? What should I be careful to do and not do?

Finally, am I correct in my belief that any other method will result in loss
of full header information, most particularly the date and time the messages
were sent and received?

I'm not sure if the Entourage archive method results in a different sent
date, but it would be easy to test by creating a new Identity and import an
..rge file and an MBOX for comparison.