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Pitch
When I upgraded to the latest rev of Entourage 2004, I saw an immediate
slowdown of the search function in the Address book: if I typed in a
last name in the Name Contains field (while the Address book was sorted
on Name), it would take 6-8 seconds for the results to come up. It used
to take about 3 seconds.
(I'm running on a G5 dualie 2ghz with 2.5 gigs of RAM, on Entourage
11.2.1 with a Identity of 965M, and 3400 contacts).
After doing a few Identity rebuilds, running Onyx and other
maintenances, and seeing no improvement on this issue, I decided to try
building a new Identity from scratch, and porting everything over
using Paul's Export-Import scripts (http://www.scriptbuilders.net/).
It took me awhile to figure out the correct sequence and logic of the
scripts (each part of the Identity -such as Categories-needs to be
first exported, and then imported) and Paul responded quickly to a
couple of questions I had. It's no plug and play process, so it's worth
going through the Read Me, for sure. And I was never able to get the
Deleted Items folder over, as it kept giving me an error message. But
for that, I finally figured that I could just use the old drag 'em out,
and drag 'em in method, so in the end, everything I wanted into the new
Identity came through.
Did it speed up the search function in the Address book? It did, by
about 40 or 50%. Enough so that I lost the Frustration Factor™
whenever I'm doing a name search in my address book.
Thanks for the scripts, Paul.
Reporting in, this is Pitch from Colorado, signing out.
slowdown of the search function in the Address book: if I typed in a
last name in the Name Contains field (while the Address book was sorted
on Name), it would take 6-8 seconds for the results to come up. It used
to take about 3 seconds.
(I'm running on a G5 dualie 2ghz with 2.5 gigs of RAM, on Entourage
11.2.1 with a Identity of 965M, and 3400 contacts).
After doing a few Identity rebuilds, running Onyx and other
maintenances, and seeing no improvement on this issue, I decided to try
building a new Identity from scratch, and porting everything over
using Paul's Export-Import scripts (http://www.scriptbuilders.net/).
It took me awhile to figure out the correct sequence and logic of the
scripts (each part of the Identity -such as Categories-needs to be
first exported, and then imported) and Paul responded quickly to a
couple of questions I had. It's no plug and play process, so it's worth
going through the Read Me, for sure. And I was never able to get the
Deleted Items folder over, as it kept giving me an error message. But
for that, I finally figured that I could just use the old drag 'em out,
and drag 'em in method, so in the end, everything I wanted into the new
Identity came through.
Did it speed up the search function in the Address book? It did, by
about 40 or 50%. Enough so that I lost the Frustration Factor™
whenever I'm doing a name search in my address book.
Thanks for the scripts, Paul.
Reporting in, this is Pitch from Colorado, signing out.