On or near 7/3/04 2:36 PM, Scott Haneda at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > I > sure wish e-Rage could be a little better in search. > > With tiger and the new filesystem they are putting in place, you can search > and find emails by various meta data. I am wondering if this will work with > E-rage, I suspect not since the emails are in a singe database. Are there > any plans to make e-rage work with the new search in Tiger?
I believe they'll make use of it _if they can_, which in part depends on how much information Apple is willing to share with them. But it would very likely not be until the NEXT release of Mac Office, which I would not expect before 2006. I find that Entourage 2004's searching is much faster than it was in Entourage X. Would you agree? (Even if you still characterize it as too slow for you.) Search on certain fields seems almost instant, for me, particularly on the subject field (simple search with Cmd-F). Searching on the body of messages is a lot slower. I keep my mail database trim, currently just 2262 messages, so that speeds searching a lot. I archive messages I need to keep after 2 weeks in a FileMaker Pro database, and FMP's search is nearly instant on a database of 41000 messages, even searching full text and'ed and or'ed with other fields. Much more flexible searching, too. Given the way Unicode text is stored in the database, I don't think you will see major speed bumps in searching. It would require an index to do that, and that would probably double the size of the already (in the opinion of many) too-large database. Incidentally...Tiger's Spotlight searching will do just that; store large indices on your hard drive. -- 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/>
