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Old 06-26-2007, 12:47 AM   #7
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Default RE: Desktop Search fails to index PST (Outlook 2007, Win XP SP2)

Update,

3a) make sure your save folder is not a hidden system folder or WDS won't
let you browse to it and add it to the search list.
4) download and install ifilter for .msg format:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en



"Frank in Houston" wrote:

> Ed,
>
> Solution for getting WDS to index archived PST files:
>
> 1) download and install trial version of dtSearch
> 2) Use their mapitool.exe to convert your PST to .msg format
> -- make sure to specify an output directory that is not in a hidden tree or
> otherwise you will not be able to naviate to it and add it to the WDS index
> list
> -- command line something like this:
> C:\program files\dtSearch\bin\mapitool.exe -xm c:\path\to\save\directory
> myarchive.pst
> -- Result will be a tree of directories matching the hierarchy inside the
> PST file wiht each message being a separate file.
> 3) Go into WDS indexer setup and add your save directory or one of its
> parents to your index list


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