I have had the same performance issues that many others have had when I upgraded from v2003 to v2007 with a large .pst file. Since I need access to all of my old emails and attachments I could not simply purge or archive the old contents. I also do not have time right now to copy the contents of that large .pst file into multiple smaller files (my .pst file is around 2.6gig).
For now, I have created a new .pst file to handle all of my new incoming mail, and I simply opened the old one as an additional data file so I can still get access to all of my old email and attachments. Here is my problem.
I have just purchased a new laptop and it came with Vista Home Premium... my old files were on XP. Apparently Vista automatically indexes everything including my .pst contents, when installed on the XP based system it gives you the option to either use the new indexing functions or skip them (because it was grinding my XP system to a halt I chose not to use them at that time). Back to the real problem... Now when I have to do a search of my old .pst contents it keeps telling me that it can't find what I am looking for because it is not done indexing. The number of records that it has to index does not seem to get any smaller, which makes me think that it is not indexing or it is having a problem indexing those records.
Is there a way win v2007 installed on a Vista OS that I can either 1) force the indexing of those records and be done with it, 2) do a different type of search that goes around the indexing function until it completes on it's own, or 3) turn off the indexing option and just wait for the longer search times?
Any help would be appreciated.
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