Personally, I'd be delighted to devote 500MB of disk space to an index of my
300MB email database in exchange for near-instant searching. Especially if
Entourage could rebuild that database in an emergency (so I wouldn't have to
back it up).
Just one vote.
> 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.
>
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