Search results unreliable

[Nitro]

I had two wab files, one in a folder under my user folder, and one under
my AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book. I tried searching for *.wab on
my c drive and "everywhere". I included non-indexed, hidden and system
files. The search did not find the wab file under
AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book. I then searched specifically in
AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book and found it. I repeated the search
"everywhere" and this time it found both wab files.

Incidentally, does anyone know where Outlook Express would store its wab
file under Vista?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I had two wab files, one in a folder under my user folder, and one under my
AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book. I tried searching for *.wab on my c
drive and "everywhere". I included non-indexed, hidden and system files.
The search did not find the wab file under AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address
Book. I then searched specifically in AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book
and found it. I repeated the search "everywhere" and this time it found
both wab files.

Incidentally, does anyone know where Outlook Express would store its wab
file under Vista?

Vista uses Windows Mail which replaced OE.

 

[the]

I had two wab files, one in a folder under my user folder, and one under
my AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book. I tried searching for *.wab on
my c drive and "everywhere". I included non-indexed, hidden and system
files. The search did not find the wab file under
AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book. I then searched specifically in
AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book and found it. I repeated the search
"everywhere" and this time it found both wab files.

That would only worked the first time if you went to the Location box to
point to the drive to search in Advanced Search, which was most likely
sitting at search Indexed locations.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I had two wab files, one in a folder under my user folder, and one under my
AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book. I tried searching for *.wab on my c
drive and "everywhere". I included non-indexed, hidden and system files.
The search did not find the wab file under AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address
Book. I then searched specifically in AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book
and found it. I repeated the search "everywhere" and this time it found
both wab files.

Incidentally, does anyone know where Outlook Express would store its wab
file under Vista?

Nowhere, for two reasons. First, Outlook Express doesn't run under Vista,
and second, it doesn't use WAB files. It uses DBX files.

WAB files are from Windows Address Book. OE calls Windows Address Book for
those services.

I usually immediately install Agent Ransack as a search utility, as I find
it faster, and more flexible and reliable than Windows search, which I
pretty much never use.
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

HTH
-pk