And whatever you do, make sure you have your OE messages folder in your
back-up set. Best would be to move it to be in the same directory as your
other data files.
In my case I created a seond partition on my HDD and shifted all my data
files to there, incl OE.
IMHO leaving data files in the default locations (as specified by the apps)
means they are scattered all over the place.
And back up daily at least. (Back-up, not file-copy.) So if you lose your
inbox you will lose only a few messages, if any.
DAS
To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling"
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"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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You're welcome & I echo what Ron said.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA
"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
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Thanks folks, that trick of highlighting messages with attachments worked
well and I found what I wanted quite easily - however, I'll also make
sure to save all the messages to a different folder as Bruce suggested
because I don't want to lose them.
Thanks again,
Pete
PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
...for US$25.00.
Ron Sommer wrote:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
This program will save all attachments so that you could search for
the attachment.
"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
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I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a
Microsoft Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years
ago and I can't remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or
the subject line - nor can I remember what the Powerpoint file was
called. I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can
search
by attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must
stress, the attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such,
but is still an attachment to an email - in other words, I did not
right-click on the attachment and select either "Save" or "Save
As". It is just a mail message with a paperclip icon.
Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps
only turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the
hundred(s) I have as
mail attachments.
TIA,
Pete