I tried deleting ALL .old files from Powermail File folder and spotlight cache. Seemed to work. Don't ask me why!!! `````did you try searching with wildcards like eg testim* or *timon* etc.
Hope it works - did for me but, as said, probably more luck than judgement!!!!! Carl On Friday, November 16, 2007 Ken Pope wrote: >I'm using PM 5.5.3 with Tiger (10.4.11) on a MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz Intel >Core 2 Duo; 2 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM). Although previously it worked >fine, for the last half year or so I have not been able to make the PM >search function work. I have tried discarding PM and re-installing a new >copy. I've tried the "update search index" and "compact search >index." (I've also compacted the message database countless times.) >Under Preferences I have checked "automatically index messages in >background" and "enable external indexing by Spotlight and Foxtrot >Personal Search. I have plenty of room on my hard drive (25 GB free). >I've repaired permissions many times. > >The messages are in the database and readable. But most of them do not >show up in a search. I run a search for all messages in a folder, for >example, that have the word "testimony" in the subject line, and the >search function tells me there are none. But a message with the word >"testimony" in the subject line from last February is there in the >folder. Though many messages from the past several years are in some of >the folder, even a search that would bring up virtually all messages in >the folder (i.e., search for "the" in the body) will not show any >messages from previous years. > >My message database is currently 226 MB. > >Over the past half year I've tried all sorts of experiments but cannot >seem to solve the problem or figure out what's wrong. > >I'd appreciate any help in diagnosing and fixing this problem. > >Thanks for your help. > >Ken > > >
