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Posted by JRush on April 19, 2006, 7:42 pm
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On the up-side WDS can query for and preview indexed items when outlook is
not running..
> Yeah, I remember Lookout - I started using it shortly before they got
> bought. So I wonder why Lookout can index detached PSTs but MSN Desktop
> Search can't?
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>> There was a little application called Lookout that did exactly
>> what Jason wants - index detached PST files. This was bought by
>> Microsoft, and I actually downloaded it from their site time ago.
>> Still there at:
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09b835ee-16e5-4961-91b8-2200ba31ea37&DisplayLang=en
>> I still use it and it is also a better search application - sometimes
>> WDS would report nothing an a file I knew existed, and then
>> Lookout would find it.
>>
>> Lookout only has two drawbacks: 1. it can only be run from Outlook
>> (but it does index any files in your folders) and not as a self-standing
>> application, and 2. there's no preview.
>>
>> There is a new version at
>> http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/download.html
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>> | Hi Jason,
>> |
>> | This is the nature of the beast with PST files. For other applications
>> to
>> | be able to search them they need to be in Outlook so that they can use
>> the
>> | MAPI interface (in Outlook) to crawl your file.
>> |
>> | The other thing is that because (from what little I know) of how PST
>> files
>> | are used date and time information must be stored in them in order to
>> | validate when they were last opened, updated or modified. Once again
>> I'm
>> | not an expert with PST files but I don't think you will be able to get
>> | around this one.
>> |
>> | Sorry to be the bearer of bad news on a Friday...
>> |
>> | - Jeff
>> |
>> | >> The PST files need to be in your outlook profile to be indexed.
>> | >
>> | > Thanks, that fully sucks, but that's what I was afraid of. So I have
>> to
>> | > convince someone on the Outlook team to have the PST timestamp not
>> change
>> | > when a file is attached but never use.
>> | >
>> | > - Jason
>> | >
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