Comments on: Compact Your Outlook Data Files http://www.keenerliving.com/compact-your-outlook-data-files A retired professional talks about life, technology, learning Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A Reminder: Your Email Boxes http://www.keenerliving.com/compact-your-outlook-data-files#comment-31864 A Reminder: Your Email Boxes Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:01:08 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/06/18/compact-your-outlook-data-files/#comment-31864 [...] (sent email, trash, old project folders you no longer need, completed tasks, etc), it pays to compact your Outlook data files. These two steps can speed up Outlook a lot, depending on how much unnecessary email you get rid of [...] [...] (sent email, trash, old project folders you no longer need, completed tasks, etc), it pays to compact your Outlook data files. These two steps can speed up Outlook a lot, depending on how much unnecessary email you get rid of [...]

]]> By: Bruce Keener http://www.keenerliving.com/compact-your-outlook-data-files#comment-586 Bruce Keener Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:52:31 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/06/18/compact-your-outlook-data-files/#comment-586 Excellent resources for me to check into, Thomas. Thank you! Sounds like I need to get my butt into gear, as my dad used to say, and check out Thunderbird. I haven't used it in a couple of years, and sounds like it has matured a lot since then. Excellent resources for me to check into, Thomas. Thank you!

Sounds like I need to get my butt into gear, as my dad used to say, and check out Thunderbird. I haven’t used it in a couple of years, and sounds like it has matured a lot since then.

]]> By: Thomas R. Hall http://www.keenerliving.com/compact-your-outlook-data-files#comment-584 Thomas R. Hall Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:11:23 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/06/18/compact-your-outlook-data-files/#comment-584 An alternative to Exchange is Zimbra [1]. Om Malik (gigaom.com) uses that [2], or at least he did. I've been looking into this as a potential Exchange/Outlook replacement, but haven't yet moved to it because it's not yet there for me. Still, a worthy option to use in place of Exchange? We'll see. I agree with capo - I LOVE Thunderbird. I use it (with IMAP) for my email and keep Outlook specifically for my PIM (contact/calendar/todo/notes). [1]: Zimbra - http://www.zimbra.com/ [2]: Om Malik on Zimbra - http://goo.gl/8CxC An alternative to Exchange is Zimbra [1]. Om Malik (gigaom.com) uses that [2], or at least he did. I’ve been looking into this as a potential Exchange/Outlook replacement, but haven’t yet moved to it because it’s not yet there for me. Still, a worthy option to use in place of Exchange? We’ll see.

I agree with capo – I LOVE Thunderbird. I use it (with IMAP) for my email and keep Outlook specifically for my PIM (contact/calendar/todo/notes).

[1]: Zimbra – http://www.zimbra.com/
[2]: Om Malik on Zimbra – http://goo.gl/8CxC

]]> By: Bruce Keener http://www.keenerliving.com/compact-your-outlook-data-files#comment-578 Bruce Keener Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:44:04 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/06/18/compact-your-outlook-data-files/#comment-578 Excellent points, capo: you always make good points. It is hard for many to get away from Outlook, though, as a lot of folks rely on Exchange Server. GooCal will eventually change that, I suspect. Excellent points, capo: you always make good points. It is hard for many to get away from Outlook, though, as a lot of folks rely on Exchange Server. GooCal will eventually change that, I suspect.

]]> By: capo http://www.keenerliving.com/compact-your-outlook-data-files#comment-577 capo Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:39:25 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/06/18/compact-your-outlook-data-files/#comment-577 You might even want to consider a free alternative to Outlook. I've been a user of the big O since Outlook 97 and have used every version up to and including Outlook 2007. After years of waiting and hoping for the Office team to really clean house, re-code Outlook and (IMNSHO) get it right I finally gave up on it and moved to Thunderbird. I loved the Outlook interface and much of it's functionality, but came to the conclusion that the program was destined to remain an overweight memory hog that periodically hangs and needs to be restarted - so often that I'd even resorted to creating a little script to do it automatically. (Outlook doesn't like to really shut down - you can make the interface go away easily but the service itself often remains in memory, forcing a manual shutdown) Maybe this is a function of the UNIX based email system I used it with, I don't know. I've heard from several people that it works very well with Exchange (no surprise there) but there are still cavemen like me in the world who don't use Exchange. In the meantime, Thunderbird has been a great substitute. Junk mail filters are a snap, it loads and runs quicker than Outlook and rarely hangs. My only disappointment is the calendaring functionality (Firebird or Lightning). Compared to Outlook's shared calendaring, Mozilla's offerings are visually unattractive and functionally lacking - kind of like the calendar on the average cellphone. But then there's always Google Calendar and the available add-ons to sync GooCal with varoius offline calendars. You might even want to consider a free alternative to Outlook. I’ve been a user of the big O since Outlook 97 and have used every version up to and including Outlook 2007. After years of waiting and hoping for the Office team to really clean house, re-code Outlook and (IMNSHO) get it right I finally gave up on it and moved to Thunderbird. I loved the Outlook interface and much of it’s functionality, but came to the conclusion that the program was destined to remain an overweight memory hog that periodically hangs and needs to be restarted – so often that I’d even resorted to creating a little script to do it automatically. (Outlook doesn’t like to really shut down – you can make the interface go away easily but the service itself often remains in memory, forcing a manual shutdown) Maybe this is a function of the UNIX based email system I used it with, I don’t know. I’ve heard from several people that it works very well with Exchange (no surprise there) but there are still cavemen like me in the world who don’t use Exchange. In the meantime, Thunderbird has been a great substitute. Junk mail filters are a snap, it loads and runs quicker than Outlook and rarely hangs. My only disappointment is the calendaring functionality (Firebird or Lightning). Compared to Outlook’s shared calendaring, Mozilla’s offerings are visually unattractive and functionally lacking – kind of like the calendar on the average cellphone. But then there’s always Google Calendar and the available add-ons to sync GooCal with varoius offline calendars.

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