"NewWorldMan" <kevin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> OK, I've looked at the various discussions of this and I still can't get it to work. In particular I've checked the store folder,
> checked eml and nws and verified the indexing service is running. I've rebuilt the WDS index and still no joy.
>
> A while back I tried WDS 3 and had no joy either. To be honest, even if I get it working by further fiddling around the experience
> shouldn't be like this. It should "just work." To be fair, it does in fact do this for Outlook, as I've tried it at work. WLM has
> been out quite a while now so I would expect a new version of WDS to work out of the box with it.
>
> I do have Copernic Desktop Search on the system which I think is still the best of the desktop search products. Unfortunately, it
> does not support WLM, hence why I'm trying WDS. However, it won't be on my PC for much longer at this rate.
>
> I'm normally a huge fan of Microsoft's but they do seem to be losing their touch recently.
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On this one I agree. Far too much the look of WIP...
BTW even though Desktop is part of this newsgroup's name
and even though WLMail is the only app in XP that uses WDS
this newsgroup may not be the best forum for discussing this.
E.g. try the MSDN Windows Desktop Search Help forum
but first make sure that the WS 4.0 Taskbar Search at least
can find things in the WLMail Message Store. Then notice
that the WLMail "word wheel" (aka Ctrl-e Search bar) at least
allows you to find things using multiple strings (with implied
Boolean AND operators) but that can only produce hits from
the bodies of messages when the wsearch service is actually
running and has indexed those messages.
FWIW I think that this poster has (except for an obvious typo [1])
accurately but not objectively characterized exactly what WLMail
does with WS 4.0 but YMMV:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...08127&SiteID=1
(MSDN Search Community Forums for
"live mail"
)
<quote>
all but the most basic of search functionality is supported
in the Live Mail interface, and the pertinent fields, such as sender
and date do not display in the WDS interface for WLMail.
</quote>
[1] FWIW I read that as "NONE but the most basic..." <eg>
Quote:
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> My PC is Win XP SP2.
>
> Kevin
Me too! ; )
HTH
Robert Aldwinckle
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