WDS: Rich Text messages in Outlook not indexed

Hello,

I see that Windows Desktop Search does not index Outlook messages that
happen to be in Rich Text format. The plain text and html messages
are indexed properly. Is this a limitation or have I misconfigured
something?

This raises a question about .msg and .eml files that may also be in
Rich Text. Are these indexed properly?

Thanks for any info!

Which version of WDS are you using on which OS?

This sounds like you may be hitting this issue
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927595 . If you go to the Indexing Options
control panel and under Advanced -> File Types you see that RTF files are
not being indexed by the RTF Filter then there's a problem.

If this is on XP you should upgrade to WDS 3.01 if you haven't already which
should fix this
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Dave Wood


<ben.mathew@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1174681476.624899.83710@y80g2000hsf.googlegro ups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I see that Windows Desktop Search does not index Outlook messages that
> happen to be in Rich Text format. The plain text and html messages
> are indexed properly. Is this a limitation or have I misconfigured
> something?
>
> This raises a question about .msg and .eml files that may also be in
> Rich Text. Are these indexed properly?
>
> Thanks for any info!
>

Thanks Dave.

Unfortunately, this is not the problem. The RTF file type is set to
index properly. And I am using version 3.01.

I am having other problems with WDS as well. Among them is that
*some* PDF content is not indexed even though I have Adobe's ifilter
installed. I can do "typedf" and see the file come up. But putting
in the contents of the file does not bring up the file. I've
reinstalled everything twice to no avail.

I will revert to X1 (Yahoo Desktop) for now even though X1 has its
limitations as well. (It doesn't index Rich Text Outlook messages
either, as far as I can tell.)

Thanks!

On Mar 26, 12:28 pm, "Dave Wood [MS]" <davew...@online.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Which version of WDS are you using on which OS?
>
> This sounds like you may be hitting this issuehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/927595. If you go to the Indexing Options
> control panel and under Advanced -> File Types you see that RTF files are
> not being indexed by the RTF Filter then there's a problem.
>
> If this is on XP you should upgrade to WDS 3.01 if you haven't already which
> should fix thishttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=738FC2DE-49B...
>
> Dave Wood
>
> <ben.mat...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1174681476.624899.83710@y80g2000hsf.googlegro ups.com...
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I see that Windows Desktop Search does not index Outlook messages that
> > happen to be in Rich Text format. The plain text and html messages
> > are indexed properly. Is this a limitation or have I misconfigured
> > something?
>
> > This raises a question about .msg and .eml files that may also be in
> > Rich Text. Are these indexed properly?
>
> > Thanks for any info!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hmm, not sure. Have you tried rebuilding your index / Restore Defaults?

You do need the most recent version of the Adobe PDF viewer I believe to get
indexing working on WDS 3.x / Vista.


<ben.mathew@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1175533338.476285.96560@q75g2000hsh.googlegro ups.com...
> Thanks Dave.
>
> Unfortunately, this is not the problem. The RTF file type is set to
> index properly. And I am using version 3.01.
>
> I am having other problems with WDS as well. Among them is that
> *some* PDF content is not indexed even though I have Adobe's ifilter
> installed. I can do "typedf" and see the file come up. But putting
> in the contents of the file does not bring up the file. I've
> reinstalled everything twice to no avail.
>
> I will revert to X1 (Yahoo Desktop) for now even though X1 has its
> limitations as well. (It doesn't index Rich Text Outlook messages
> either, as far as I can tell.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Mar 26, 12:28 pm, "Dave Wood [MS]" <davew...@online.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>> Which version of WDS are you using on which OS?
>>
>> This sounds like you may be hitting this
>> issuehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/927595. If you go to the Indexing
>> Options
>> control panel and under Advanced -> File Types you see that RTF files are
>> not being indexed by the RTF Filter then there's a problem.
>>
>> If this is on XP you should upgrade to WDS 3.01 if you haven't already
>> which
>> should fix
>> thishttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=738FC2DE-49B...
>>
>> Dave Wood
>>
>> <ben.mat...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1174681476.624899.83710@y80g2000hsf.googlegro ups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hello,
>>
>> > I see that Windows Desktop Search does not index Outlook messages that
>> > happen to be in Rich Text format. The plain text and html messages
>> > are indexed properly. Is this a limitation or have I misconfigured
>> > something?
>>
>> > This raises a question about .msg and .eml files that may also be in
>> > Rich Text. Are these indexed properly?
>>
>> > Thanks for any info!- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
>