Frank in Houston

Ed,

I think that you must have the PST open in outlook in order for WDS to see it.
You can control this from Settings>Control Panel>Mail>Data Files...

I am struggling with the same and I am going to try and convert to another
format like .msg to see what happens.

-Frank

"Ed." wrote:

> Hello everyone.
> I'm starting to be pretty desperate, crawling the web for days without
> finding any answer, so I'm trying to ask my question here.
>
> My configuration is: Windows XP Pro (SP2 + all updates), Office 2007
> Professional Plus and (just installed) the latest version of WDS. My Outlook
> works with my Exchange mailbox, and I'm also maintaining PST file for
> archiving old items (the PST was created in my old Outlook XP, and
> transferred to the new machine).
>
> The problem is that, no matter what I try to do, I can't make WDS find
> Outlook items stored in the PST! It readily finds all the items with the
> specific search words in the Exchange mailbox, but doesn't even show any
> result from the PST (which does, of course, have relevant items).
> I've tried to uncheck and then re-check the "Personal Folders" option in the
> Search Options dialog, tried to rebuild the index - nothing helped!
> So as for now, I'm pretty desperate and starting to think about going back
> to Google Desktop Search I was using before...
> This forum is really my last resort... So any help will be highly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance!