Search for file type takes hours, & finds files on wrong drive.

[Guest]

I wanted to find the Outlook .pst files on my C drive.
I set the advanced options..
.. Search for *.pst (also tried .pst)
.. Location: Local Disk (C
.. Include non-indexed, hidden & system files.
In the first 1 second the search returns 7 .pst files from the Recycle bin
of my M drive!!! WHY??
Then the search goes on & on & on for hours.. after a further 2 hours it
still had not found any more. I let it run all afternoon. When I came back
several hours later it had found a few more files with "pst" in the title AND
it eventually found my wanted Outlook .pst file. When I did the same search
on my XP PC it found my .pst file in a few seconds. Please could someone
explain what's going on. Why is it so much harder to get a result in Vista.
All the search options are all over the screen instead of in one area, and
many of the straightforward choices are not there any more.


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[P. Di Stolfo]

Hello,

try re-building the Search index by going to
Control Panel -> type Search in the search box -> click Indexing Options ->
Advanced... -> Rebuild.
This should bring your files up-to-date.

Hope this helps.
Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo

 

[Guest]

Thanks P.
I rebuilt the search index as you described. I re-ran the search, it stiil
brought up the 7 .pst files in the M: recycle bin. It has been running 20
minutes and found nothing else so far. It hasn't changed it at all.

 

[Guest]

So nobody (not even a MVP) can tell me why it takes 3 seconds in XP to find
my Outlook .pst file, but Vista takes nearly 3 hours. !!!! ??? I have a
screen dump of the results but I don't know where to post it. Please can
someone try this search and see if they get the same slow result.

 

[Dave]

I tried it last night, it took 2 seconds to find the first one, and about 2
minutes to find 3 more... all on the C: drive. I used Ext:.pst in the
search box.