Entourage has 2Gb limit?

[Golem]

Entourage has just died and wants to rebuild.

Unfortunately neither rebuild not advanced rebuild has worked.

In trying to fix it I realised the entourage database is 1.99Gb in size.

Other than go to a backup a week old and start using Mail any suggestions?

 

[manzanita]

The 2GB file size limit is not Entourage's fault; it's probably a hardware limitation (I think... can someone explain why this is the case?). At least, I run into the 2GB limit with Photoshop files pretty frequently.

I'm betting that your Entourage database wasn't 2GB in size before the rebuild happened - was it?? I once did a rebuild in Entourage and it turned my ~300MB database into a 1.69GB database. It must have put a lot of extra 1s and 0s in there somehow (try compressing that file; I'll bet you get a pretty good compression ratio). I tried and tried but couldn't fix it ... good luck but I'm betting you'll have to go back to your backup. A week ago isn't bad.

 

[Golem]

Backup was 1.1gb in size. So your probably right it tried to rebuild and hit the 2gb limit and then died permanently.

 

[Schiffi]

You must not be using HFS+ then.

 

[manzanita]

Nope. It is HFS+.

edit to say: well, mine is anyway - I don't know about Golem's HD though!

 

[Golem]

Hmm my Apply system profiler doesnt show.

Just 3 lines with Volume Size ,writeable,ejectable.

But i am 99% sure I formated as HFS+ 2 odd years ago as I have the previous 2-3 times.

 

[cooljunkie]

Install the Office V.x updater (10.1.2), which raises the size limit on databases from 2gb to 4gb. Worked for me with exactly the same problem...