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

Pete

In Outlook Express place the cursor on the Inbox in the Folder List and
select View, Current View and uncheck Group Messages by Conversation.
Next sort the date received column by clicking on the column header so
that the newest messages appear at the top of the Message List window.

Next select View, Columns and check the box Attachment. Then use the
Move Up option to move Attachment to the top and click on OK. In the
Message List window click on the Attachment column header once or twice
so that all the Attachments are listed at the top of the Window. They
should be in date order. You can then scroll down to those from 2 years
ago and hopefully identify the message and attachment you are looking
for.

--


Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



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

Pete

In Outlook Express place the cursor on the Inbox in the Folder List and
select View, Current View and uncheck Group Messages by Conversation.
Next sort the date received column by clicking on the column header so
that the newest messages appear at the top of the Message List window.

Next select View, Columns and check the box Attachment. Then use the
Move Up option to move Attachment to the top and click on OK. In the
Message List window click on the Attachment column header once or twice
so that all the Attachments are listed at the top of the Window. They
should be in date order. You can then scroll down to those from 2 years
ago and hopefully identify the message and attachment you are looking
for.

--


Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



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

Bruce suggested different folders, not folder. I am sure that your Sent
Items also has a lot of messages. Move messages to new folders for it also.
You should also compact after moving messages from the Inbox and Sent items.

You can add Attachment and Size columns to the message list pane. Clicking
on Attachment header will sort by all messages with attachments. Then look
at the size. A pps attachment would be a large size.
You could click on Size header and look at the larger size messages.
--
Ron Sommer

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
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

Bruce suggested different folders, not folder. I am sure that your Sent
Items also has a lot of messages. Move messages to new folders for it also.
You should also compact after moving messages from the Inbox and Sent items.

You can add Attachment and Size columns to the message list pane. Clicking
on Attachment header will sort by all messages with attachments. Then look
at the size. A pps attachment would be a large size.
You could click on Size header and look at the larger size messages.
--
Ron Sommer

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
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

You're welcome & I echo what Ron said.
--

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


"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
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

You're welcome & I echo what Ron said.
--

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


"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
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

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"
---
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
You're welcome & I echo what Ron said.
--

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


"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
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

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"
---
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
You're welcome & I echo what Ron said.
--

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


"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
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

"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?


Would the sender have referred to the attachment by name in the E-mail?
Then you could search for it in the Message: field because of that
and use the Has attachment flag (Alt-h) to ensure that you found
messages which actually had attachments as well as the other search
criteria.

Or might You have referred to the attachment in a reply E-mail at the same time?
If so you may find the right Subject that way and then be able to find
the original E-mail simply by Subject without resorting to the fact
that it would also have an attachment.


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.


One approach to plodding through your whole Inbox would be
to start with a Ctrl-Shift-F Alt-h search. Then sort that by size.

Then, do you have Outlook too? Perhaps it would have better
search functionality in it. If so, you could transfer the E-mails
that you thought would be likely sources for the .pps attachment
and see if you could find it with its tools instead.



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.


That's because they are contained in OE's Inbox.dbx and not easily
accessible. However, when you do that what search tool do you use--
Search Companion or Windows Search? If the latter WS will index
your E-mails for you, although it appears it still won't recognize attachments
in them, except implied by their size, which it does give.

FWIW I just did a search of my Inbox with WS 4.0 using size as a
criterion to try to expose likely attachment sources with this syntax:

folder:Inbox size:10KB

It seems to have understood what I meant. ; )

Also, if you did get those files exported or saved it's likely that
Windows Search would provide even more possibilities from a search
with its Advanced Query Search (AQS) features. E.g. supposedly
syntax like this should be possible with it in some context:

isattachment:.pps

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro.../advquery.mspx



TIA,

Pete


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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