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: "Nichols, Jared - 1170 - MITLL" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:06:43 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Re: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 - flat file or database?!
My Exchange box is a hair over a gig and my database file is sitting at
189.5 MB. I have loads of attachments...
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 1:43 PM, "Miller, Timothy J." <email@hidden> wrote:
>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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>[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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