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jeffreyj - 29 Aug 2007 00:06 GMT

I have a very big email box on Outlook, so I would like to use the
Find feature to search for emails. However, it doesn't seem to work
very well. As soon as I click "Find", I get a "There are no items"
response. I don't think Outlook has even tried searching for the
email; it would take much longer to actually search through my email
box. I never heard the hard drive spinning, the network light
blinking, or anything.

To test it out, I search for an email that I know exists. The Find
feature will not be able to find my email.

Does anybody have similar problems? How can I get this to work.

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Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook] - 29 Aug 2007 06:00 GMT

Outlook version? Have you tried Advanced Find?

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> I have a very big email box on Outlook, so I would like to use the
> Find feature to search for emails. However, it doesn't seem to work
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> Does anybody have similar problems? How can I get this to work.

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jeffreyj - 29 Aug 2007 21:18 GMT

On Aug 29, 7:00 am, Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]
<JocelynFiorelloMVPOutl...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Outlook version? Have you tried Advanced Find?
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> > Does anybody have similar problems? How can I get this to work.

It is Office Outlook 2003. I have tried Advanced Find.

All my emails are located on the server. I'm not totally sure how
Outlook works, but I think that it saves a copy onto your computer
when you open the email. The next time I open the same email, it
opens much quicker. I think Outlook is only searching through the
emails saved on my computer, not all the emails on the server. That's
my guess (not too sure, because I don't really know how it really
works)

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Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook] - 30 Aug 2007 00:48 GMT

Are you connecting to an Exchange server? If not, are you using POP3 or IMAP
for your e-mail? IMAP is more like Exchange in that all messages are stored
on the server and you only view them in Outlook -- a copy is saved in an
offline folders file. POP3 messages are usually downloaded from the server
-- you can choose to leave a copy on the server if you want to, but that is
not the default.

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> On Aug 29, 7:00 am, Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]
> <JocelynFiorelloMVPOutl...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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> my guess (not too sure, because I don't really know how it really
> works)

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