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Hi all you Mac lovers out there,
You might have encountered some freezing and physical squealing in
Entourage when synching with the MS Exchange servers (using WebDAV).
Here is how I described it recently:
With Entourage 2004 (even a clean installation on Mac 10.3.9 or Mac
10.4.2), I encounter a real physical squealing sound from my Mac when
the Entourage program is synching with my work's Exchange server. I am
connected to the Exchange server using WebDAV. The squealing only
happens when the Entourage software is in a "frozen" state which it
gets into about every four to five minutes when synching with the
Exchange server. The little blue and white horizontal, rotating
"barber shop" pole will stop moving and will usually do that on
"Inbox". At which point there will be a noticeable squeal emitted from
the Mac until Entourage "wakes up" and continues the operation. I have
found that even putting the speakers on mute does not get rid of the
sound and of course does nothing for the freezing.
Now, just after posting this to the newsgroups, I found another site
with a recommended solution for this issue: Putting the
/~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/ folder into the Privacy section of
Spotlight. Now, since Entourage doesn’t yet support spotlight
searching, there really isn’t any major reason for Spotlight to try to
access that folder. However, for some reason, Spotlight will try to
access that folder to search the big DB file from Entourage every time
there is a change in the file. Once I disabled that by putting the MUD
folder into the Privacy section, the freezing and squealing went away.
Just a helpful hint for Entourage users. Of course, this doesn’t
explain the problems I had with Panther, but there you go – technology
isn’t easy to explain sometimes.
Thanks,
Eric
You might have encountered some freezing and physical squealing in
Entourage when synching with the MS Exchange servers (using WebDAV).
Here is how I described it recently:
With Entourage 2004 (even a clean installation on Mac 10.3.9 or Mac
10.4.2), I encounter a real physical squealing sound from my Mac when
the Entourage program is synching with my work's Exchange server. I am
connected to the Exchange server using WebDAV. The squealing only
happens when the Entourage software is in a "frozen" state which it
gets into about every four to five minutes when synching with the
Exchange server. The little blue and white horizontal, rotating
"barber shop" pole will stop moving and will usually do that on
"Inbox". At which point there will be a noticeable squeal emitted from
the Mac until Entourage "wakes up" and continues the operation. I have
found that even putting the speakers on mute does not get rid of the
sound and of course does nothing for the freezing.
Now, just after posting this to the newsgroups, I found another site
with a recommended solution for this issue: Putting the
/~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/ folder into the Privacy section of
Spotlight. Now, since Entourage doesn’t yet support spotlight
searching, there really isn’t any major reason for Spotlight to try to
access that folder. However, for some reason, Spotlight will try to
access that folder to search the big DB file from Entourage every time
there is a change in the file. Once I disabled that by putting the MUD
folder into the Privacy section, the freezing and squealing went away.
Just a helpful hint for Entourage users.
Of course, this doesn’texplain the problems I had with Panther, but there you go – technology
isn’t easy to explain sometimes.
Thanks,
Eric