Entourage suddenly VERY slow receiving mail, plus the deaded spinning ball!

[ruperthunt]

Hello

I started using entourage 2004 a couple of months ago and had no
problems at all until last week. Suddenly it has become ridiculously
slow receiving mail with the spinning ball appearing with almost every
message download for about 10-20 seconds, or more. The only thing I can
think of that I changed around the time it started was that I'd added
another 40 projects, although empty ones. Are there limits to the
number of projects it can handle? I'm using Entouurage to implement the
organisation principles of 'GTD' (Getting things done), and was advised
to use Entourage. GTD creates an unusually high number of 'projects' -
I now have 137! It also I think coincided with emptying my deleted
items folder which had a lot of mail in it - I seem to remember about
11,000 or more! I've run the database utility and verfiied it isnt
corrupted. I also rebuilt the database which compacted it quite a lot
(from 190MB to 100). Any ideas what could be causing the problems?

thank you

Rupert Hunt

http://www.spareroom.co.uk
http://www.flatshare.com

 

[nateandkaren]

If you're on Tiger, you might try hiding the MUD folder from Spotlight

 

[ruperthunt]

thanks, but no, I'm on 10.3.9

 

[Peter]

Servus,

I have the same problem under X.4, but where can I find this MUD
folder?

Thanks.....peter

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Servus,

I have the same problem under X.4, but where can I find this MUD
folder?

Thanks.....peter

Folder called "Microsoft User Data" that sits in your Documents folder in
your 'Home' Folder

 

[joshea]

How do you hide the MUD folder in spotlight?

 

[joshea]

How do you hide the MUD folder in spotlight?

 

[Peter]

Go to System Preferences, klick Spotlight and than Privacy and add this
folder
That MUD stands for Microsoft User Data.... I would never guessed it..

Regards....peter

 

[ruperthunt]

Well, I finally got to the bottom of this. After reinstalling the
system software and entourage and discovering the problem was still
there after recalling from backup, I tried deleting those extra
projects Id created and suddenly all well again - it seems it
seriousaly can't handle anything beyond abuout 90 projects