Please pass this to the dev team ... to make this fearture more visible. I
can't be the only one that will be highly annoyed by this, though I'm just a
lowly sales rep. I've asked around to my customers (my company did over 4% of
all the beta deployments in the USA for Microsoft) who delployed Vista, and
they agreed this was major oversight.
Hope you get this fixed ... we all want the msft stock price to rise!
"Dave Wood [MS]" wrote:
> Yes, it's probably not ideal. In part it's because of the pluggable nature
> of the search system - individual protocol handlers control the items
> indexed {in this case the MAPI protocol handler for Outlook items}, but each
> protocol handler doesn't have its own UI to control settings. And even if
> they did people would get overwhelmed by the number of different config
> options and still complain ... :-)
>
> Dave
>
> "GRE" <GRE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news
7211771-7FFD-4029-8C0B-73B62E05A08A@microsoft.com...
> > WORKS PERFECT>>>> Thanks!
> >
> > Ya' know, I saw that, and almost chose that option, but then said,
> > "Microsoft wouldn't bury such an important feature in such an obscure way,
> > would they?" They would, and they did! Pox on my house for doubting
> > MSFT's
> > ability to bury key features ...
> >
> > "Dave Wood [MS]" wrote:
> >
> >> We mark the contents of the Deleted Items {and Junk Mail} folders as
> >> hidden,
> >> so they are indexed but don't show up in search results by default. You
> >> need
> >> to go to Folder Options in Windows Explorer, and then select "Show Hidden
> >> Files and Folders" to see these items in searches.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >> "GRE" <GRE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:155A369D-0F57-49B6-B7FB-38D344D06BF4@microsoft.com...
> >> >I did the option you outline below in outlook 2007 already; no luck. It
> >> > didn't change a thing. I deleted and reindexed after to no avail.
> >> >
> >> > The MSN Search / Windows Live search in Windows XP will find deleted
> >> > items.
> >> > It's odd that Vista Search will not. Also, Google would as well, I used
> >> > earlier versions before I found MSN Search better.
> >> >
> >> > So thanks for the reply; just doesn't work.
> >> >
> >> > "DevilsPGD" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> In message <40368B3E-6632-4052-99F7-AA3CFBC4811A@microsoft.com> GRE
> >> >> <GRE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> >Upgrading to Vista has been *great* with one exception: It won't
> >> >> >search
> >> >> >my
> >> >> >Outlook Deleted items ... and I can't find how to modify this.
> >> >>
> >> >> Try this...
> >> >>
> >> >> Outlook --> Tools menu --> Options --> [Preferences] tab --> "Search
> >> >> Options" button --> Try the "Include messages from the Deleted Items
> >> >> folder"
> >> >> --
> >> >> Insert something clever here.
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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