Regarding mail back-ups (apple mail now) what is the most effective way to back up you mail? If you simply copy Users/Library/Mail into another folder, how can you access it if needed? Along this same line, backing up the attachments folder as well, how can you keep the old mail syc'd with its respective attachments? The info about 2gig limit for Entourage is interesting... Thanks, Rod > > 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