Search For Email With Text

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I'll cut to the chase: I have Outlook 2003 and I have my mailbox and
1 .pst file in my "All Mail Folders" section each with many folders
and subfolders. I want to perform a search on the entire .pst file
(or whole folder structure in Outlook).

I have the search box open and put my search term into "Look for:"
field. The issue is that it only searches within that folder, not in
any sub folders. So if I want to search my 2008 and 2009 subfolders
in my Year folder, searching while "Year" folder is selected yields no
results while searching with the "2008" or "2009" subfolder selected
does yield results.

Therefore it seems like it is only looking for e-mails in the
immediate folder, not any subfolders.

Is there anyway to get around that? Or to tell Outlook to bring back
results from all of outlook including the mailbox and any .pst I have
linked up?

PostScript: The reason I have .pst files is because we have a very
small amount of space on our personal drives but lots of space on the
network drive. So I just have my .pst file out where more storage is
available.
 
DtTall said:
I have the search box open and put my search term into "Look for:"
field. The issue is that it only searches within that folder, not in
any sub folders.
Click to expand...

Next to Look For field (the "In" field) click Browse button. A window pos
up, tick "Search subfolders" checkbox.
PostScript: The reason I have .pst files is because we have a very
small amount of space on our personal drives but lots of space on the
network drive. So I just have my .pst file out where more storage is
available.
Click to expand...

MS does not support using PST over the network.
 
Next to Look For field (the "In" field) click Browse button. A window
pos
up, tick "Search subfolders" checkbox.

Thanks for that tip! Read below for a follow up question.

PostScript: The reason I have .pst files is because we have a very
MS does not support using PST over the network.
Click to expand...

When you say 'does not support' what does that mean? I have the .pst
files on a different drive and I can open them in Outlook. The
folders all show up in the "All Mail Folders" window. The issue is
that when on one of these .pst files (that I can read and write to) is
selected the "Search In" box is grayed out and, therefore, I cannot
select the "Search Subfolders" option.

Thanks for you help.
 
sorry for being this obvious. But I had almost the same kind of problem with searching for emails in outlook. I looked up for alternative solutions since I also use a lot of different .pst files and different profiles. However, I need to have access to all of the emails most of the time, and search with in the files and archives. Lookeen does all this fast and in a way which I need. Working with it for about two month now and I'm very happy about this little search plugin. You might be interested... www.lookeen.net



DtTall wrote:

Next to Look For field (the "In" field) click Browse button.
10-Dec-09

Next to Look For field (the "In" field) click Browse button. A windo
po
up, tick "Search subfolders" checkbox

Thanks for that tip! Read below for a follow up question

PostScript: The reason I have .pst files is because we have a ver

When you say 'does not support' what does that mean? I have the .ps
files on a different drive and I can open them in Outlook. Th
folders all show up in the "All Mail Folders" window. The issue i
that when on one of these .pst files (that I can read and write to) i
selected the "Search In" box is grayed out and, therefore, I canno
select the "Search Subfolders" option

Thanks for you help.

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