Re: search feature does not work in outlook 2007

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I have the same problem: Any search of Outlook 2007 Contacts on Vista comes
up "no matches found". I have already spent hours re-indexing my entire
machine. Outlook claims "Outlook has finished indexing all of your items."
This is clearly a bug - I cannot search for anything in my Outlook Contacts!

Any help is most appreciated!

"Nigel Freeney" wrote:

Hi Bill,

Sorry for the confusion. All searches fail. I was saying that even searches
with just "the" or "a" also failed to show that I was searching for things
that if only a couple of records were indexed and working, would have
generated results.

Thanks,

Nigel

"BillR [MVP]" <BillR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But searches without those words work ok?

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Bill R MVP
"Nigel Freeney" <nigel.msnewsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi All,

Search within Outlook 2007 is broken again!

After stopping the service and deleting the cache and then re-instating,
as previously decribed, the search feature appeared to work as expected.
Unfortunately any search including "the" and "a" returns no results found
when searching my contacts. The number of indexed files has risen from
150,000 to 587,000 not sure if that is part of the problem.

Anyone have any further ideas

Thanks,

Nigel

"Nigel Freeney" <nigel.msnewsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Bill,

I have my hard drive partitioned to give me 4 drives
C:OS, D:Programmes, E:Data & Z:Swapfile.

I cleared the index after stopping and disabling the windows search
service

upon restarting I ensured that the extra drives I need to include in the
index search were added.

I think the indexing controls could be improved
Call me a newbie but my first impression was that Modify would only
affect the selected item in the location list rather than allow me to
add new locations - perhaps "Modify locations"?
The list of file types to be indexed needs a new sort by option that
would let you group sorted by index name or index content. When you have
more than 60 file extensions in the list the existing management is
cumbersome.

Thanks for your help with this query.

Nigel

"BillR [MVP]" <BillR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Your Outlook data files aren't on another drive are they? One user had
the same issue as you and it turned out he needed to index his other
drive.

Go into Advanced in Indexing Options in Control Panel to rebuild or
change the location of the Index.

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Bill R MVP
"Nigel Freeney" <nigel.msnewsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Bill,

I have checked that the correct data file is being indexed and that
tohers are specifically not.

How do I go about rebuilding the index?

Do I have control where the index is stored?

Thanks,

Nigel


"BillR [MVP]" <BillR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Check Indexing Options in Control panel and ensure you are indexing
the Outlook data file you are searching. You might need to rebuild
the Index.

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Bill R MVP
"Nigel Freeney" <nigel.msnewsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D5F661D7-2C1F-4B20-B500-E8EE2875E137@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I am not getting worthwhile results using Microsofts inbuilt search
engine. I am running office 2007 in Vista with all latest updates
applied.

I am trying to perform a search of my contacts. I have tried
searching for details which are in the name of the contact and
details that are known and I get no results found.

If I revert to the desktop the records I am looking for are listed!

Any suggestions?

Thans for any help with this,

Nigel







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