In the end, it appears to have been the index was FUBAR'd. I did the
rebuild from the control panel and had to wait overnight.
What a joke! You actually have to wait for the index to build to be
able to search through mail? And by "wait", I mean wait 12 hours??
The search function has been slowly crippled since Windows 2000, when
a search for "*.*" actually searched every file, not just the one's MS
thought I meant. Now, it won't search even those unless the index is
happy? This is negative progress.
I understand the premise behind a "centralized search", but at what
cost? At this point, I have no confidence in the search - a feature I
live by in my profession. Did the search *really* find every
occurence?
The index seems to be too fragile for real-world application.
Give me back the Windows 2000 search, please.
--David.
On Jul 22, 9:36 pm, dkier...@kccomputersales.com wrote:
> Thanks for the tips!
>
> This is an .ost in cached mode, with Outlook conencting to an Exchange
> 2003 SP2 server using RPC over HTTPS. There are no .pst's, though I
> do have a couple of POP3 accounts grabbing mail into my Exchange mbx.
>
> Clicking Outlook --> Modify in the Indexing Options takes a
> *looooonng* time to do anything (I gave up on it an killed the app
> twice before trying to wait it out - over 1 minute). Once it decided
> to show me the options, it took an equally long time to expand the
> Outlook "tree", my Exchange mailbox and the .pst's are all checked.
>
> I also noticed that C: is *not* checked on the "Indexed Locations"
> page.
>
> This is a Core2 duo 1.8GHz machine with 2GB RAM. It should not chug
> like this with only Outlook and OnceNote open. I live in those 2
> apps, and they are completely broken to me without searching.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> --David
>
> On Jul 22, 9:20 pm, "BillR [MVP]" <Bi...@removethisbitMVPS.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've seen this happen when an Outlook PST is stored on another drive that
> > isn't indexed. Is that possibly your problem?
> > Also check what Outlook folders you are indexing in Indexing Options.
>
> > --
> > Bill R MVP<dkier...@kccomputersales.com> wrote in message
>
> >news: roups.com...
>
> > > Vista RTM build 6000
> > > Outlook 2007 12.0.6023
> > > OneNote 12.0.4518
>
> > > I am posting here because I think this is a Vista issue, not an Office
> > > issue.
>
> > > Outlook search does not show proper results. Close/Open Outlook,
> > > reboot does not help. Tools-->Instant Search-->Indexing Status shows
> > > "69,000 items remaining"
>
> > > Onenote note flag summary page works intermittently. Sometimes shows
> > > correct results (though I am not confident that all results are
> > > shown), sometimes hangs on "Searching..." and never shows any results,
> > > and sometimes repeats the list of items over and over and over.
>
> > > I've tried:
> > > - Leaving computer on overnight
> > > - Rebuild Index from Control Panel-->Indexing Options
> > > - Start-->Run-->onenote /a (according to MS, supposed to fix
> > > corruption in onenote file)
> > > - excluding Outlook from indexing
>
> > > The performance of these features seems to be a major step backward
> > > from XP and previous Office versions. What good is combined indexing
> > > when it breaks searching in *every* application?
>
> > > --David.- Hide quoted text -
>
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