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Kevinw

Anybody having problems with Search? I type in the name of the person who sent me an email in the "Q" search box upper right with something like "Michael" which is part of "[email protected]". And nothing. If find nothing. I not only have several messages my in box but also in saved and deleted messages. Am I doing something wrong?
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Anybody having problems with Search? I type in the name of the person
who sent me an email in the "Q" search box upper right with something
like "Michael" which is part of "[email protected]". And nothing. If find
nothing. I not only have several messages my in box but also in saved
and deleted messages. Am I doing something wrong?
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What version of Entourage do you havew?? 2008 comes with two options: a
quickfilter that only filters based on selected criteria (and e-mail
address is not one of them), or the serach box, that's actually
spotlight-based and should be able to find what you are looking for,

Corentin
 
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Step Schwarz

I think the "Q" the original poster mentions is the magnifying glass icon. And I also had this problem. Even though the preference was set to include Entourage items in Spotlight, neither Entourage nor Spotlight were able to produce any search results. (With the exception of the Filter, which worked fine.) I tried a number of things, and one of them must have worked because everything is working fine now. Here's what I did:

- I've had Spotlight ignoring <user>/Library/Caches (in System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy) ever since I installed Tiger. I removed that block.
- In Entourage > Preferences... > Spotlight, I unchecked both checkboxes and closed the Preferences window. I quit and relaunched Entourage. I went back to Preferences... > Spotlight, checked both checkboxes, then clicked Rebuild button.

After a few minutes I tried to use Spotlight. Though the icon would highlight in my menu bar, I would never get the search window. What I would get is several errors about a network drive being disconnected (until I clicked the menu bar icon again to de-select it).

I gave it a few hours. Now everything works normally.

I should mention I'm on Tiger and my Entourage database is ~650 MB.

Hope this helps!
 
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Diane Ross

I think the "Q" the original poster mentions is the magnifying glass icon. And
I also had this problem. Even though the preference was set to include
Entourage items in Spotlight, neither Entourage nor Spotlight were able to
produce any search results. (With the exception of the Filter, which worked
fine.)
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If you have Notifications/Reminders turned off then....

Spotlight will index any cache files the Entourage daemon has created even
if the daemon is not launched, but no new cache files will be created until
the daemon is launched again. If the Microsoft Sync daemon never launches,
there's no way for Entourage to sync data with Sync Services. The
preferences in Entourage for Sync Services basically control 1) if this
daemon app is launched and 2) where it should sync data to-from.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/syncservices/index.html>
 
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closethipster

Let's see.. Office Reminders and Sync Services (the three checkboxes in the Preferences, at least) are all on. But this is interesting.. so there's some connection between Spotlight and Sync Services?
 
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Kerry

What version of Entourage do you havew?? 2008 comes with two options: a
quickfilter that only filters based on selected criteria (and e-mail
address is not one of them), or the serach box, that's actually
spotlight-based and should be able to find what you are looking for,

Corentin

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I'm having problems with search but only in Calendar and Tasks. If I
type something like a persons name in Calendar, in which I know there
are many entries, nothing shows up unless there is something for
today. Same with Tasks. All other modules work fine. I don't have any
idea why.
 
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Kerry

What version of Entourage do you havew?? 2008 comes with two options: a
quickfilter that only filters based on selected criteria (and e-mail
address is not one of them), or the serach box, that's actually
spotlight-based and should be able to find what you are looking for,

Corentin

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I just realized that in a spotlight search I'm getting the same
results - no hits in Calendar or Tasks but I'm getting the hits in
iCal (sync'g between both).
 
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Kevinw

In reply to my question I found some answers.
First I am running Office 2008.
Second I went ahead and rebuilt the database "System preferences, spotlight, rebuild." this solved the problem.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

In reply to my question I found some answers.
First I am running Office 2008.
Second I went ahead and rebuilt the database "System preferences,
spotlight, rebuild." this solved the problem.
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Great. So it was a Spotlight issue,

Corentin
 
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Thomas

go to Entourage preferances for spotlight and turn the damn thing off...then you can search with the old find command you know so well...Spotlight does not work with this updated version so far..ignore all other info...sorry you had to go through all that..
 
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Steve Basile

Thomas and Christian,

I asked earlier about how to Find Within and may have an answer both your
questions and mine in the same shot. Ready?

Leave Spotlight searching ON but hold the option key down when you select
Find or Advanced Find from the Edit menu. Voila!

Steve B.



Thomas wrote on 4/14/08 10:31 AM:
 
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Alex Schoenfeldt

Wow, that worked for me too. I hope Diane Ross reads this, as all of her
help was a waste of hours of my time.
 
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Ivar Klaas

Not sure you are aware of this: your remark is not in line with general
polite behavior.

Men with big mouths: "But in the town it was well known when they got home
at night their fat and psychopathic wives would trash them within inches of
their lives....."

Ivar
 
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Kevinw

Ivar - whoa dude - I didn't necessarily think the post was taking a shot at Diane - she has always been very helpful Instead I think it was merely a poorly worded statement of fact perhaps born from frustration. Diane's got thick skin though I sense as anyone in her line of work of taking all the hard questions has to.
 
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Ivar Klaas

Ivar - whoa dude - I didn't necessarily think the post was taking a shot at
Diane - she has always been very helpful Instead I think it was merely a
poorly worded statement of fact perhaps born from frustration. Diane's got
thick skin though I sense as anyone in her line of work of taking all the hard
questions has to.
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Hence the "not sure"

I do not care too much about "We didn't know"

Peace

Ivar
 
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Leo

Is there a way to standardize a search to occur in ALL MAIL instead of INBOX when you first enter the search phrase into the search box? Now I enter the search phrase, nothing shows up because it is looking into INBOX - then i have to click ALL MAIL and it finds it - i wish it automatically looked in all mail right away - is there a setting?
 
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Diane Ross

Leo said:
Is there a way to standardize a search to occur in ALL MAIL instead of INBOX
when you first enter the search phrase into the search box? Now I enter the
search phrase, nothing shows up because it is looking into INBOX - then i have
to click ALL MAIL and it finds it - i wish it automatically looked in all mail
right away - is there a setting?
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No, but you could create a Custom Search. Just save the search after you
select All Mail. (delete the search term after the search window pops up)
You can then double click on this search in the folder view and open it in
it's own window so you'll have it easily available.
 
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