Whoever recommended Agent Ransack for file searching, thanks

On 3/7/2014 10:52 AM, tb wrote:
On 3/6/2014 at 3:47:30 PM Ken Blake wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:31 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/5/2014 at 9:20:42 AM Ken Blake wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:


I am looking for a free utility that also searches the contents
of Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel spreadsheet,
Word files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...



I'm afraid you are wrong. It does. And since it's free, why not
download and try it yourself.

Well I downloaded and installed Agent Ransack 2014 Build 819 and did
some tests.

It did find text in Excel files but did not in Outlook messages.
(I am using Office 2007.) I made sure that the whole C:\ drive and
subdirectories were serached and, yes, my Outlook messages are
stored on the C:\ drive.

Is there some setting that I am missing for successful Outlook
searches?


Sorry, I did a test before I wrote the above, and only tested for
Excel. I didn't bother with Outlook, and it now appears that I was
wrong.

No, there's no setting I know of.

Anybody knows of a freeware utility that can search for text in Outlook
2007 messages?


I must be missing something, but why can't you use Outlook for your
search? Is it not installed?

On 3/7/2014 at 11:00:26 AM sticks wrote:

On 3/7/2014 10:52 AM, tb wrote:
On 3/6/2014 at 3:47:30 PM Ken Blake wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:31 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/5/2014 at 9:20:42 AM Ken Blake wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:


I am looking for a free utility that also searches the
contents of Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel
spreadsheet, Word files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...



I'm afraid you are wrong. It does. And since it's free, why
not download and try it yourself.

Well I downloaded and installed Agent Ransack 2014 Build 819
and did some tests.

It did find text in Excel files but did not in Outlook messages.
(I am using Office 2007.) I made sure that the whole C:\ drive
and subdirectories were serached and, yes, my Outlook messages
are stored on the C:\ drive.

Is there some setting that I am missing for successful Outlook
searches?


Sorry, I did a test before I wrote the above, and only tested for
Excel. I didn't bother with Outlook, and it now appears that I was
wrong.

No, there's no setting I know of.

Anybody knows of a freeware utility that can search for text in
Outlook 2007 messages?


I must be missing something, but why can't you use Outlook for your
search? Is it not installed?

As far as I know, with Outlook one can do only simple searches. I
would like to do complex ones... :-)

--
tb

tb wrote:
On 3/7/2014 at 11:00:26 AM sticks wrote:

On 3/7/2014 10:52 AM, tb wrote:
On 3/6/2014 at 3:47:30 PM Ken Blake wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:31 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/5/2014 at 9:20:42 AM Ken Blake wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:


I am looking for a free utility that also searches the
contents of Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel
spreadsheet, Word files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...



I'm afraid you are wrong. It does. And since it's free, why
not download and try it yourself.

Well I downloaded and installed Agent Ransack 2014 Build 819
and did some tests.

It did find text in Excel files but did not in Outlook messages.
(I am using Office 2007.) I made sure that the whole C:\ drive
and subdirectories were serached and, yes, my Outlook messages
are stored on the C:\ drive.

Is there some setting that I am missing for successful Outlook
searches?


Sorry, I did a test before I wrote the above, and only tested for
Excel. I didn't bother with Outlook, and it now appears that I was
wrong.

No, there's no setting I know of.

Anybody knows of a freeware utility that can search for text in
Outlook 2007 messages?


I must be missing something, but why can't you use Outlook for your
search? Is it not installed?

As far as I know, with Outlook one can do only simple searches. I
would like to do complex ones... :-)


If you have Windows 7, I find that the Windows search does it quite well.

--
Blue

On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:11:15 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/7/2014 at 11:00:26 AM sticks wrote:

On 3/7/2014 10:52 AM, tb wrote:
On 3/6/2014 at 3:47:30 PM Ken Blake wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:31 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/5/2014 at 9:20:42 AM Ken Blake wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:


I am looking for a free utility that also searches the
contents of Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel
spreadsheet, Word files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...



I'm afraid you are wrong. It does. And since it's free, why
not download and try it yourself.

Well I downloaded and installed Agent Ransack 2014 Build 819
and did some tests.

It did find text in Excel files but did not in Outlook messages.
(I am using Office 2007.) I made sure that the whole C:\ drive
and subdirectories were serached and, yes, my Outlook messages
are stored on the C:\ drive.

Is there some setting that I am missing for successful Outlook
searches?


Sorry, I did a test before I wrote the above, and only tested for
Excel. I didn't bother with Outlook, and it now appears that I was
wrong.

No, there's no setting I know of.

Anybody knows of a freeware utility that can search for text in
Outlook 2007 messages?


I must be missing something, but why can't you use Outlook for your
search? Is it not installed?

As far as I know, with Outlook one can do only simple searches. I
would like to do complex ones... :-)

You're missing the fact that Outlook can do quite complex searches. I
skipped over Outlook 2007, but 2003 and 2010 can do complex searches, so I
feel quite confident that 2007 can, as well.

Maybe someone else with 2007 will give you some steps to follow, or you can
simply check the Help file or look online for Advanced Find. Prepare to be
happy.

On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:04:07 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:11:15 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/7/2014 at 11:00:26 AM sticks wrote:

On 3/7/2014 10:52 AM, tb wrote:
On 3/6/2014 at 3:47:30 PM Ken Blake wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:31 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/5/2014 at 9:20:42 AM Ken Blake wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:


I am looking for a free utility that also searches the
contents of Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel
spreadsheet, Word files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...



I'm afraid you are wrong. It does. And since it's free, why
not download and try it yourself.

Well I downloaded and installed Agent Ransack 2014 Build 819
and did some tests.

It did find text in Excel files but did not in Outlook messages.
(I am using Office 2007.) I made sure that the whole C:\ drive
and subdirectories were serached and, yes, my Outlook messages
are stored on the C:\ drive.

Is there some setting that I am missing for successful Outlook
searches?


Sorry, I did a test before I wrote the above, and only tested for
Excel. I didn't bother with Outlook, and it now appears that I was
wrong.

No, there's no setting I know of.

Anybody knows of a freeware utility that can search for text in
Outlook 2007 messages?


I must be missing something, but why can't you use Outlook for your
search? Is it not installed?

As far as I know, with Outlook one can do only simple searches. I
would like to do complex ones... :-)

You're missing the fact that Outlook can do quite complex searches. I
skipped over Outlook 2007, but 2003 and 2010 can do complex searches, so I
feel quite confident that 2007 can, as well.

Maybe someone else with 2007 will give you some steps to follow, or you can
simply check the Help file or look online for Advanced Find. Prepare to be
happy.


Not sure exactly what you are searching for... and I don't use Outlook
- I use Eudora- but I gave up on Agent Ransack and now use
IndexYourFiles.. it works on network and NAS drives and if you set it
to update the indexes often (Mine every night) then it finds
everything you own, no matter where it is.. It does text within files
searches too albeit slower, but I think that is to be expected.

Hope this helps someone

Beamer Smith

Beamer Smith wrote:

On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:04:07 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:11:15 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/7/2014 at 11:00:26 AM sticks wrote:

On 3/7/2014 10:52 AM, tb wrote:
On 3/6/2014 at 3:47:30 PM Ken Blake wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:31 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/5/2014 at 9:20:42 AM Ken Blake wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:


I am looking for a free utility that also searches the
contents of Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails,
Excel spreadsheet, Word files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does
that: http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...



I'm afraid you are wrong. It does. And since it's free,
why not download and try it yourself.

Well I downloaded and installed Agent Ransack 2014 Build 819
and did some tests.

It did find text in Excel files but did not in Outlook
messages. (I am using Office 2007.) I made sure that the
whole C:\ drive and subdirectories were serached and, yes,
my Outlook messages are stored on the C:\ drive.

Is there some setting that I am missing for successful
Outlook searches?


Sorry, I did a test before I wrote the above, and only tested
for Excel. I didn't bother with Outlook, and it now appears
that I was wrong.

No, there's no setting I know of.

Anybody knows of a freeware utility that can search for text in
Outlook 2007 messages?


I must be missing something, but why can't you use Outlook for
your search? Is it not installed?

As far as I know, with Outlook one can do only simple searches. I
would like to do complex ones... :-)

You're missing the fact that Outlook can do quite complex searches.
I skipped over Outlook 2007, but 2003 and 2010 can do complex
searches, so I feel quite confident that 2007 can, as well.

Maybe someone else with 2007 will give you some steps to follow, or
you can simply check the Help file or look online for Advanced
Find. Prepare to be happy.


Not sure exactly what you are searching for... and I don't use Outlook
- I use Eudora- but I gave up on Agent Ransack and now use
IndexYourFiles.. it works on network and NAS drives and if you set it
to update the indexes often (Mine every night) then it finds
everything you own, no matter where it is.. It does text within files
searches too albeit slower, but I think that is to be expected.

Hope this helps someone

Beamer Smith

I visited the web site and 2 things concern me;

1. Latest version of Windows listed is Version 7.
2. Last update was over 1 year ago.

Also, I didn't see any advantage over Agent Ransack.

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Sir_George

On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:51:32 -0400, Beamer Smith
wrote:

Not sure exactly what you are searching for... and I don't use Outlook
- I use Eudora- but I gave up on Agent Ransack and now use
IndexYourFiles.. it works on network and NAS drives and if you set it
to update the indexes often (Mine every night) then it finds
everything you own, no matter where it is.. It does text within files
searches too albeit slower, but I think that is to be expected.

Hope this helps someone

You replied to my post, but it wasn't me who was asking the question.