Over the past month or 2, running Outlook under Parallels (3214) has gotten much worse. I'm not sure exactly when it happened. We run exchange at work, and basically, any time I do ANYTHING that changes that status of a message, read it, send it, dismiss an alert, etc, I get a spinning beachball (Mac wait) and everything on the Windows side is locked. The result is that, though the machine is *fast*, usability is abysmal. This was not always the case. I've played with using Shared networking and host networking, and nothing seems to make it better. Any ideas? Thanks! Mark
Hi Mark, I'm having the same thing but with a different email program (TheBat). The problem seems to go away briefly if I exit XP and Parallels and reboot the Mac, but after I've been running for a while it starts up again. I tried defragmenting the Windows disks within Windows but that didn't help. Now I'm going to run Parallels Compressor and see if that brings any joy.
Follow-up: Running Parallels Compressor seems to have fixed it. However, to run Compressor I also had to delete all my snapshots, and that may also have had something to do with it. I may be wrong, but I have a suspicion that snapshots don't just sit there, they appear to have some kind of live links to the current installation that needs to be updated continuously.
When you say "snapshots", is this a Parallels feature your using? 2.5 or 3.0? I haven't created any shapshots that I know of unless this is done automatically.
