According to this Microsoft Office for Mac blog post, the database has been replaced with SQLite that runs its own maintenance as needed. When fixes are needed, SQLite takes care of them silently says the post.

And even once started, performance of these apps is sluggish. I’ve also come across memory issues running 2008. In Excel, I’ve actually had low memory errors several times. No problems with Excel 2004. This is the first time I’ve had memory issues on my MBP.

The only app I might keep around is the newest Entourage. It’s still slow, but seems better able to handle my gigs of email that I’ve collected over the years. Entourage 2004 kept stalling and occasionally crapping out, but so far so good with Entourage 2008.

I also have Office 2008 installed (legitimately) on my home iMac and that feels slow as well, but that’s a new machine!

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But even with these repeated errors, syncing seemed to eventually work since I saw changes to my contact info in Entourage (and Address Book). To be on the safe side, I repaired disk permissions once again. Since then, I haven’t got any sync errors.

In all fairness though, I didn’t follow good troubleshooting techniques since I had also installed the info management app, Yojimbo, and was trying to use its .Mac syncing feature as well.

Now that the update is installed, syncing works and Spotlight can search my Entourage data. I’ve found some old forwarded emails in Entourage using Spotlight with keywords I remembered in the email.

But I’m getting used to configuring Spotlight and .Mac syncing via the System Preferences. Seems like for Spotlight, Entourage email searching is clumped together with Mail Messages searching which is represented by the Apple Mail icon and for syncing, I’m guessing Entourage contact syncing is part of Contacts syncing, represented by the Mac OS X Address Book icon? For syncing, there is a new entry to sync Entourage notes however.

Bottom line is that the features in the update works.

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Oooohhh, Spotlight integration. I must say using Spotlight on my Mac has made it much easier finding things since I store stuff all over, in my Documents folder, in Entourage email, in iPhoto, etc. Having Spotlight able to search through all of this is so, so much better. And, syncing Entourage! Hope that means I can sync contact info without the need of additional software.

The 11.2.3 update is a huge 57 MB.

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