The first thing I would do is to move all your messages from the Inbox to
user created folders and keep them about 300MB max in size. You are lurking
on the edge of losing all your messages.

I don't have any real good answer for you, but you could make a message rule
based on attachments or size and apply it manually to narrow things down
some, but you'll still have some work ahead for you.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"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