>> Chris Ridd:

>>>> Does that mean that you'd be happy if Entourage pretty much *duplicated*
>>>> your database so that metadata files were made accessible to Spotlight?

>>> Aren't you making some assumptions here?

>> I always do. :-)

>>> What if MS decides to ditch the idea of having a single monolithic Database
>>> file in favour of lots of (indexable) smaller files?

>> Then, I'd be eating crow.
>> But I'm not hungry.

>> Why, do you want to wager that they won't?

> Well, not a /whole/ lot, LOL. But duplicating disk writes wouldn't make
> Entourage run any more quickly, and since it is already somewhat lethargic I
> doubt they'd go this route. There's also the obvious disk space issue - I
> compacted my DB recently and it is down to about 3GB :-(

> I suppose we'll find out in a month or so...

> Cheers,

> Chris