[OSX-Users] Re: Outlook 11 Problems

[Hugh Glaser]

Sorry, other thing I forgot to mention is that the problem with the VM rising is that I can watch it paging for ages - sometimes apps can hang for 30 secs or more, which sounds like the sort of thing that might be happening.

On 14 Dec 2011, at 13:01, Hugh Glaser wrote:

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> On 14 Dec 2011, at 08:37, Hugh C Davis wrote:
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>> Dear Mac folks.
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>> I use Outlook 11 as my email/calendar client.
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>> Please do not give me grief about this. I HATE the package, and it does seem daft to own a range of excellent Apple hardware and then run Microsoft software on them!  
> Au contraire, mon ami.
> It seems very sensible to have a Unix machine that you can run M$ Office on.
>> But I find there are a number of things that simply are not implemented in the Mac  offerings mainly that I have to use often as the result of lots of work with people in the Uni centre.
> Yup.
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> Not sure I can help much, but here is a report.
> I use both Outlook and Mail (and iCal and …)
> I usually only use Mail though.
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>> So – I have some real issues and I cannot find anything on-line to help…
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>> 1.  I spend my entire time looking at the beach ball. If I look at next email or try to switch to calendar view I get enough time to load up Activity Monitor and see that Outlook is not responding while using 100% of one of my processors. Mayve 10 seconds per change. This is impossible – any suggestions? E.g. I do have a very large mailbox – but I do not dare archive them – I often have to search to find old stuff.
> A real bummer.
> Outlook is working fine for me - actually better than Mail - there is plenty on the forums about the bug in the Flag interaction between Exchange and Mail, which was introduced in Lion and Apple have STILL not sorted.
> It would be strange if there was a connection, but I mention it, and also as a warning that this would be a bad time to bite the bullet and move to Mail, as you might get hit by it.
> How large is very large?
> In the past I have found that folders over about 10000 were rather dodgy, and so tend to keep below around 8000.
> But I never bother with search in Outlook or Mail - I always use Spotlight (in the finder window, not the top right), which is very fast.
> Actually, I think I have excluded Outlook from Spotlight, and just rely on its Mail search to find messages.
> So before I moved over more to Mail I used to leave both connected all the time, using Outlook for the functions and Mail via Spotlight for search.
> Not ideal, but it worked!
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>> 2.  Things I put in using iCal or on my iPhone simply do not appear in Outlook. I look at OWA, and they are there, and they appear in all my Apple calendars – but not in Outlook. There is no way make outlook see these entries other than to delete the calendar on outlook and then re-load it (takes an hour or so).   Surely this must just be me – if this was happening to everyone else the forums would be full of it and they are not….???
> There is currently at least one bug in iCal that I think has only been mentioned on our iOS list (for reasons I won't go into), that means that the sync of the name of an item gets lost.
> Again, maybe not connected, but worth mentioning, as it suggests fragility in the syncing.
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> My overall conclusion is that Apple has screwed up a few things on the Lion upgrade.
> In particular Safari crashes on me (and I can now even make it happen). Mail hangs to Exchange.
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> In general, I find that the memory management is still dodgy - VM goes up and rarely goes down, even when closing things.
> fseventsd, for example, just carries on going up.
> And network activity seems to make heavy loads on the CPU, which is annoying (not least because it switches the fan on because of the heat).
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> I have a sense that a problem for me is around the file system - something is just not quite right.
> I also suspect that if I hosed the disk and did a re-install things would be better, but that is quite a business to do in particular because Apple decided not to facilitate that. So any problems I had with a bit of corruption (oooh Betty!) have just carried on.
> I keep living in hope that the next Lion upgrade will improve things.
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> So nothing concrete, sorry, but hopefully some food for thought.
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>> Hugh Davis
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Hugh Glaser,  
              Web and Internet Science
              Electronics and Computer Science,
              University of Southampton,
              Southampton SO17 1BJ
Work: +44 23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 23 8059 3045
Mobile: +44 75 9533 4155 , Home: +44 23 8061 5652
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/