> Just so you have an idea of scale of files etc here > messages 625.5 MB Database 2.6 MB > > John Guy The maximum size Entourage will allow I think is 2 GB *BUT* anything as big as your's is asking for problems. Microsoft will advise that [ I have had some run-ins with similar problems and spoken to MS Mac support people this is what they say ] You ought to find other ways of storing your emails and in particular removing large attachments. Drag them out of Entourage and keep them in folders, or if you can, do something fancy like make a FileMaker database out of them. My 2c John