Often. Very often. I regularly search keywords. Over the weekend i was looking at fiber conversations from when people started running fiber 2-3-4 years ago. I use it often. Did I say often? :)
Same with our business - i am regularly referencing accounts and info from pre-powercode days. Using an email search Granted on windows mail it can take a while. There are two searches - one is an "indexed" search which is supposed to be quick but i've found is only about 20% accurate. I'll typically use it first. The advanced search (ctrl-f i think it is) will find every friggin thing ; sometimes it will even find false matches. I often find myself finding one or two hits that are "relevant", i'll then read that message, then read the whole thread by subject. ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Moffett via Af To: af@afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] LIST: Overnight adjustments How often do you guys go back and find something from your 40-90 gigs of email? When you did need something, how successful were you at finding it? I gave up trying to keep everything after realizing that I almost never wanted anything older than 6 months, and if I did then it took an inordinate amount of effort to find it. I sort important things into folders....if I didn't sort it then it probably wasn't important. Everything in my inbox older than 6 months gets deleted. </Thread Hijack> > On Wed September 17 2014 08:55, Chuck McCown via Af wrote: >> Windows Live Mail. It was what replaced Outlook Express. >> I like it for most things. But nothing is very good at gracefully handling >> my 40 GB mail archive. >> > LOL, that has been my issue for a few years now. Have just over 92 GB > in my Kmail, close to 800 folders (many nested) and the _only_ mail > agent I have found that deals with it is Kmail (Linux KDE). >
