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Lightning Fast Email Searching
I couldn’t always find an email I wanted and Outlook’s search function is very very very slow. And though I created a folder structure to separate emails by project sometimes I misfiled.
Installed the Google search plug-in for Outlook (part of Google Desktop)
I can search all the fields of all my emails in one or two seconds by keyword - and I no longer need an email folder structure.
Does this create a large file on your hard drive? I used the Google desktop search tool and found a 10G file created on my hard drive.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:06 amI had similar problem, also with files on our network across multiple drives.
I installed Copernic desktop search and configured it to index all of my emails and the local & network drives of interest.
Now I can find just about anything I need quickly.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:39 amSearching in Outlook 2007 is quite a bit faster, if you let it install the new Microsoft search engine, also part of Windows Vista.
Google Desktop is still a great option though. The best part is you can hit ctrl-ctrl from wherever you are and it pops a search box up on the screen that will get you to what you want in no time at all- even to launch applications.
GD does create index files on your local disk. This is the inverted index mapping search terms to places where they can be found. I haven’t found this set of files to be anywhere near 10G. Perhaps you need to limit the amount of data it is searching.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:29 pm