pjgrun

I am experiencing similar problem with WDS 3.01 and Outlook 2003. In my case,
only items in the root folder of the .pst are not found. Items located in
folders or subfolders created below the root folder are correctly indexed and
found. Is this also your case?

"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!