

To keep Safari from doing this, add Entourage to the do-not-search list. While Spotlight can’t search Entourage (yet), it keeps trying-which can slow down your e-mail. If you have IMAP or Exchange accounts, you’ll have to redownload messages stored on those servers. If the utility reports errors, select Rebuild Database and click on Continue again. Select the Verify Database Integrity option and click on Continue.

Then hold down the option key while launching Entourage to summon the Database Utility. To check on yours, first quit all Office 2004 apps. (For more font tips, see “Font Fixes” at the end of this article.)Ī damaged Entourage database file can lead to poor performance. Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache (11) to the Trash. To delete this cache, quit all Office 2004 applications and then drag the file / Office maintains its own font cache, which can cause problems if damaged. Select your startup volume from the list on the left, click on the First Aid tab, and then click on the Repair Disk Permissions button (see “Permission Granted”). Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Microsoft says that repairing permissions can correct certain Office 2004 performance problems. In the case of Office 2004, repairing permissions really can improve performance. Choose Window: Previous Recipients, select any address you don’t use frequently, and click on Remove From List. If your Previous Recipients list gets too long, addressing can get pretty poky. Mail maintains a list of everyone to whom you’ve sent a message, and it consults this list when you address new messages. Choose Mail: Preferences, click on the General button in the toolbar, and choose a less frequent schedule from the Check For New Mail pop-up menu (see “Patience, Patience”). Mail always slows down a bit when checking messages, so if you set it to do so less often, it will feel faster. So make an effort to keep your inbox relatively clear by filing incoming messages as soon as possible. The inbox is especially sensitive to large numbers of messages, and more so with IMAP accounts than with POP ones. If you have a mailbox with more than 1,000 or so messages, consider splitting it into two or more smaller mailboxes. The more messages you have in a mailbox, the longer Mail will take to display it. You can speed up Mail by checking your mail less frequently the less often Mail has to check mailboxes, the faster it’ll feel.
