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I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are
about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more info on the property). Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I overcome that? I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there absolutely no way to do it? Jack |
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"Jack B" wrote in message
... I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more info on the property). Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I overcome that? Drag them to an empty directory and search them as text files. If necessary you could rename all the .eml extensions to .txt but I doubt that would be necessary. If you're lucky you might find that Windows Search indexes all text but I haven't studied WS enough to know what all it does... Hmm... One problem is that many E-mail contain both Plain Text and HTML versions of their content so searching for URLs is probably not very conclusive. Instead I tried this search: kind ![]() and it came up with E-mails, so it may be reasonable to assume that the search was matching some indexed HTML... ; ) I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there absolutely no way to do it? Jack Good luck Robert Aldwinckle --- |
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Robert,
I can drag RE.dbx to an empty directory, but how exactly do I do the search after that? There are 200 messages in that folder and each one has 1 to 25 properties listed, each with an html address. The entire dbx file is 36 MB. Jack ----------------------------- "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message ... "Jack B" wrote in message ... I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more info on the property). Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I overcome that? Drag them to an empty directory and search them as text files. If necessary you could rename all the .eml extensions to .txt but I doubt that would be necessary. If you're lucky you might find that Windows Search indexes all text but I haven't studied WS enough to know what all it does... Hmm... One problem is that many E-mail contain both Plain Text and HTML versions of their content so searching for URLs is probably not very conclusive. Instead I tried this search: kind ![]() and it came up with E-mails, so it may be reasonable to assume that the search was matching some indexed HTML... ; ) I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there absolutely no way to do it? Jack Good luck Robert Aldwinckle --- |
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Robert suggested dragging the individual messages (EML files) to a Windows
folder, not DBX files. Jack B wrote: Robert, I can drag RE.dbx to an empty directory, but how exactly do I do the search after that? There are 200 messages in that folder and each one has 1 to 25 properties listed, each with an html address. The entire dbx file is 36 MB. Jack ----------------------------- "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message ... "Jack B" wrote in message ... I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more info on the property). Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I overcome that? Drag them to an empty directory and search them as text files. If necessary you could rename all the .eml extensions to .txt but I doubt that would be necessary. If you're lucky you might find that Windows Search indexes all text but I haven't studied WS enough to know what all it does... Hmm... One problem is that many E-mail contain both Plain Text and HTML versions of their content so searching for URLs is probably not very conclusive. Instead I tried this search: kind ![]() and it came up with E-mails, so it may be reasonable to assume that the search was matching some indexed HTML... ; ) I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there absolutely no way to do it? Jack Good luck Robert Aldwinckle --- |
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Ahh -- okay.
Did that, but for some reason SEARCH fails to find the text UNTIL all the file extensions were changed from .eml to .txt, which I did with a handy utility called Bulk Rename Utility. Strange. Anyway, problem solved! Jack ----------------------------- "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... Robert suggested dragging the individual messages (EML files) to a Windows folder, not DBX files. Jack B wrote: Robert, I can drag RE.dbx to an empty directory, but how exactly do I do the search after that? There are 200 messages in that folder and each one has 1 to 25 properties listed, each with an html address. The entire dbx file is 36 MB. Jack ----------------------------- "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message ... "Jack B" wrote in message ... I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more info on the property). Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I overcome that? Drag them to an empty directory and search them as text files. If necessary you could rename all the .eml extensions to .txt but I doubt that would be necessary. If you're lucky you might find that Windows Search indexes all text but I haven't studied WS enough to know what all it does... Hmm... One problem is that many E-mail contain both Plain Text and HTML versions of their content so searching for URLs is probably not very conclusive. Instead I tried this search: kind ![]() and it came up with E-mails, so it may be reasonable to assume that the search was matching some indexed HTML... ; ) I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there absolutely no way to do it? Jack Good luck Robert Aldwinckle --- |
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No need to begin a new thread, Jack:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d4c03180e3b4da Repost: OE Search cannot search on such MailTo links, only the Plain Text content. -- ~PA Bear Jack B wrote: I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more info on the property). Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I overcome that? I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there absolutely no way to do it? Jack |
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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
... No need to begin a new thread, Jack: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d4c03180e3b4da Repost: OE Search cannot search on such MailTo links, only the Plain Text content. Robear, Something's new. I *can* find real HTML strings using Ctrl-Shift-F. This is with IE8b2 though. Do you have an IE7 you can test that observation with? I'm thinking that we may be perpetuating some empirical facts which were once true only in earlier versions of IE and OE. E.g. I found I don't need to use WS 4.0 to find E-mail messages by searching for the string: /HTML ; ) Robert --- -- ~PA Bear Jack B wrote: I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more info on the property). Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I overcome that? I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there absolutely no way to do it? Jack |
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Will test that out soon enough. Thanks, Robert.
We're seeing some posts in both OE newsgroups (and a few in IE Beta) describing some very odd behavior in OE once IE8B2's been installed. -- ~Robear Robert Aldwinckle wrote: "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... No need to begin a new thread, Jack: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d4c03180e3b4da Repost: OE Search cannot search on such MailTo links, only the Plain Text content. Robear, Something's new. I *can* find real HTML strings using Ctrl-Shift-F. This is with IE8b2 though. Do you have an IE7 you can test that observation with? I'm thinking that we may be perpetuating some empirical facts which were once true only in earlier versions of IE and OE. E.g. I found I don't need to use WS 4.0 to find E-mail messages by searching for the string: /HTML ; ) Robert --- -- ~PA Bear Jack B wrote: I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more info on the property). Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I overcome that? I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there absolutely no way to do it? Jack |
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