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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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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What Bruce said.
To narrow down your Search, you could create a (Mail) Message Rule reading "Where the message has an attachment, highlight it with [color]." After applying the rule manually (APPLY NOW) button & applying the rule to Local Folders, all messages with an attachment (of any sort) will be colored. Pete Zahut wrote: 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 |
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What Bruce said.
To narrow down your Search, you could create a (Mail) Message Rule reading "Where the message has an attachment, highlight it with [color]." After applying the rule manually (APPLY NOW) button & applying the rule to Local Folders, all messages with an attachment (of any sort) will be colored. Pete Zahut wrote: 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 |
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http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
This program will save all attachments so that you could search for the attachment. -- Ron Sommer "Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message ... 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 |
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http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
This program will save all attachments so that you could search for the attachment. -- Ron Sommer "Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message ... 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 |
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....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 ... 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 |
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....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 ... 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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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