Database Backup Files

[AndrewFogarty]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
Email Client: Exchange

recently preformed a database backup (4/15) when i navigate to my identities folder i have 4 "database" files inside the "main identity folder"
one is "Database", a second is "Old Database" (from 3/18/08), third is "Old Database 1" (from 1/14/09), and the fourth "Old Database 2" (from 4/15/09).

each is between 5 and 7 GB. (older is larger since i have deleted a lot of archived emails). as you can imagine this is eating up a significant chuck of disk space. is it safe to remove either of these? are they basically all redundant copies of one another just incremented by date? obviously making the most recent the best "copy" (which i could burn to dvd and store for retrieval later if needed) and "database" is the currently active one.

Thank you.

 

[Ed Kimball]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
Email Client: Exchange

recently preformed a database backup (4/15) when i navigate to my identities
folder i have 4 "database" files inside the "main identity folder"
one is "Database", a second is "Old Database" (from 3/18/08), third is "Old
Database 1" (from 1/14/09), and the fourth "Old Database 2" (from 4/15/09).

each is between 5 and 7 GB. (older is larger since i have deleted a lot of
archived emails). as you can imagine this is eating up a significant chuck of
disk space. is it safe to remove either of these? are they basically all
redundant copies of one another just incremented by date? obviously making the
most recent the best "copy" (which i could burn to dvd and store for retrieval
later if needed) and "database" is the currently active one.

Thank you.

Yes, once you have confirmed that Entourage is working properly with a new
identity you can safely delete the old ones. I'd be very surprised if there
is anything in either the 3/18/08 or 1/14/09 that was still of use to you,
if you seem to have everything you need in the current database.