• [rant] Outlook search fails

    From Ammammata@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 20 07:58:38 2022
    WHY Outlook search fails?

    There are around 200,000,000 pages on google about this topic, "solutions"
    are always the same, but unfortunately don't work

    scanpst
    sfc /scannow
    delete and rebuild index
    repair office installation
    remove and reinstall office
    oga & bigoga
    and so on

    typical errors:
    - start search from any folder, take a message, search related mails: shows
    all of them EXCLUDED the original one (maybe this is by design? is it a bug
    or a feature?)
    - start search from Inbox, take a message, search related mails, doesn't
    find any, even if there are 2-3-more just below the a.m.
    - search by Subject containing quotes fails (do they conflict with
    mandatory quotes around the searched text?)
    - search seems to work but you know there are well more results (not
    millions, let say 10 out of 20 are missing)

    ...and YES, search parameters have been checked several times, folder, extensions, etc

    Is there any possibility to disconnect Outlook search from Windows search
    like it was in the past?
    Is there any tool I can try to finally get all the results I need?

    Consider that OST/PST files are around 50 Gbytes size

    TIA for your comments


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