On or near 11/29/03 4:53 PM, Jeremy Whipple at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > > On 03/11/30 8:22 +0900 (JST), "Dan Warne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 2) To ask if anyone knows of any third party solutions to make search faster >> in Entourage. > > It would be great to have indexing in Entourage. But what to do in the > meantime? I don't know a third-party solution that will work _within_ > E'rage, but there is the option of archiving your email and using a > different application to search it. Archiving (or backing up) to a > non-E'rage format is a good idea as a matter of principle, and if you're > archiving on, say, a weekly or monthly basis, you'd probably find the > archive adequate for most of your searching needs. > Beside the possibilities Jeremy mentioned, there are also archiving solutions that back up to FileMaker Pro databases, which can be indexed, and which can search my current archive of more than 35,000 messages in a second or two.
I would not expect Entourage to get that fast for full-text searching. However, I _would_ expect significant improvement in future versions. -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://members.thinkaccess.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
