Search for text in unicode documents in windows XP?

[baruchatta]

My company is forcing us to move Outlook emails from our Outlook mailbox to
our local harddrive. I have done this, but since the emails are in unicode,
the Windows XP can not search the text of these emails anymore. Do you have
a solution for searching unicode text on Windows xp or is there a way to hook
my Outlook back to my hard drive?
(e-mail address removed)

 

[DL]

Perhaps I'm missing something
'hook my outlook back to my hard drive' ?

 

[baruchatta]

OK, let me spell it out for you, since you dont understand the jargon.
Currently, my Outlook folders are on the company server. My copied emails
are on my workstation hard drive. My question was regarding using Outlook to
use my local folder as one of the folders available to Outlook.
Thanks

 

[baruchatta]

In the UNIX world, this would be a "GREP". I have a folder full of email
documents on my local workstation hard drive, ("C:"), and I wish to search
thru the text of all of them for a certain string. If I could get Outlook to
do this for me, I would be very happy. Alternatively, is there any third
party software that can search in Windows for/thru Unicode text? Or is there
a hidden Microsoft Office/Windows function that can be configured to grep
unicode? Should I switch to Linux to do this?
Thanks,
Baruch

 

[Brian Tillman]

OK, let me spell it out for you, since you dont understand the jargon.
Currently, my Outlook folders are on the company server. My copied
emails are on my workstation hard drive. My question was regarding
using Outlook to use my local folder as one of the folders available
to Outlook.

You can't use a Windows folder as a folder available to Outlook. Outlook's
folders are not Windows file system objects. However, you can keep
Outlook's data store on your local hard drive. First, though, what kind of
account are you using? Is it an Exchange account, an IMAP account, or a POP
account?

 

[baruchatta]

It is probably an Exchange account. Is there any way to tell?
BTW is "archiving" a solution? Is it possible to save emails to the
"archive" and then seach and retrieve?

 

[Brian Tillman]

It is probably an Exchange account. Is there any way to tell?

Sure. However, exactly how is Outlook version-dependent and you decided to
keep your version a secret.

BTW is "archiving" a solution? Is it possible to save emails to the
"archive" and then seach and retrieve?

An archive is simply a way of reducing the data you keep available on a
day-to-day basis while still being able to access that data when needed. I
don't see how it has any direct bearing on what you describe in your initial
post, but it will allow you to reduce your data store size while still
allowing you to keep all the data.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

are you using the native windows xp search or the desktop search?