RE: [Fed-Talk] Re: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 - flat file or database?!
RE: [Fed-Talk] Re: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 - flat file or database?!
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] Re: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 - flat file or database?!
- From: "Miller, Timothy J." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:43:03 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Re: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 - flat file or database?!
Nevertheless, it does mean that you need to exclude it from Time Machine or suffer the performance hit during backups.
-- Tim
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From: fed-talk-bounces+tmiller=email@hidden [fed-talk-bounces+tmiller=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Nichols, Jared - 1170 - MITLL [email@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:14 AM
To: Don Montalvo; Fed Talk
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Re: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 - flat file or database?!
During Beta, we were informed that this file is only used as an index to
speed up performance and other internal Outlook functions. Nothing
critical is stored in it and you can go ahead and whack the file and
really nothing bad happens. It rebuilds and you go on your merry way. Our
testing proved this out.
Chill. Every once and awhile, Microsoft does actually do something of
value.
j
--
Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436
On 10/14/10 12:00 PM, "Don Montalvo" <email@hidden> wrote:
>I confirmed that attachments are indeed stored in a monolithic database.
>
>I deleted that 5M message (completely). Then I checked the Database file,
>it was the same size.
>
>I rebuilt the Database (OPTION-open Outlook 2011) and that brought the
>Database file back to it's original 29M size.
>
>~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main
>Identity/Database
>
>Microsoft. Fail. Again.
>
>No wonder many of us were kept out of the Outlook 2011 Beta...we would
>have caught this. What a farce.
>
>We're facing yet another monolithic database in Outlook 2011. As
>attachments come in, watch it grow (and eventually implode).
>
>Not. Happy.
>
>Don
>
>
>On Oct 14, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Don Montalvo wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I finally got a chance to dig into the new "flat file" structure
>>used by Outlook 2011.
>>
>> I see individual files in these two directories:
>>
>> ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/Office\ 2011\ Identities/Main\
>>Identity/Data\ Records/Message\ Sources/
>>
>> ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/Office\ 2011\ Identities/Main\
>>Identity/Data\ Records/Messages/
>>
>> ...much to my surprise I also found a Database file that was 29M (used
>>a temporary account for testing so it was small):
>>
>> ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main
>>Identity/Database
>>
>> ...well, I decided to send myself a 5M attachment. Much to my dismay,
>>the database balooned up to 34M.
>>
>> Very scary.....
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Don
>
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