Why doesn't Outlook remember indexing?

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gproston

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I am using a fully patched/updated version of Outlook 2010. At the beginning of each year, I take one year's worth of content out of the outlook.pst file and move it into archive.pst, keeping only five years worth of data in outlook.pst. I do this to speed up searching, etc. Once this is done, I tell Outlook to re-index everything (Options -> Search -> Indexing Options -> Advanced -> Rebuild).

However there are times when I need to search for an old email, so I do this: File -> Open -> Open Outlook data file and select archive.pst. The problem is this, every time I want to search for an email, Outlook tries to re-index everything, which takes hours. Why on earth isn't the index data available? More importantly, are there some changes I can make so that the index data remains available, so that searching for one email doesn't take hours?

Thanks.
 
When you remove the pst from outlook, Windows Search sees it as deleted and removes it - windows Search doesn't mount the pst file, it relies on using Outlook to have the pst mounted. If you want something that keeps the data in a search index, use x1 search utility or similar. I don't know if any others do.
 
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