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I noticed today that my Outlook now has a new searchbar. Evidently it's way better so I tried it.
Still the same endless progress dots.
Still the same blank results page even though I'm asking it to list emails from a single person whom I get about a billion emails a week from
No option to restrict the search to "this folder" instead of "this mailbox" (which massively improves performance)
So...a step backwards.
I use GMail and as I type it automatically suggestions refinements based on the results it's found in between key strokes. It's truly bizarre how bad outlook search is.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: results it's found in between key strokes.
I dislike that quite a bit.
Don't search until I tell you to search, dagnabit!
Also searches which only OR and never AND -- drives me nuts, totally useless.
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You dislike having results appear as you type?
That is curious.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Of course.
"You need to cut the blue wire... but before you do that..."
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curmudgeon!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Thanks for the heads-up. I noticed it a couple of days ago and wondered if it was too good to be true.
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I just tried it, and it picked up 54 emails from you in my deleted items folder1 out of the 8,575 items in there2 pretty much immediately. Only niggle is that it won't show me which folder an item is in.
Are you IMAP or POP3? This was on my desktop, so it uses POP3 and downloads all emails to here to clear the server. The other devices use IMAP and leave it on the server for this machine to pull down. I really hate 500MB inboxes on the server! 
1: Everything goes in there when it no longer needs comments, and isn't directly money related - not a slight at you or CP, I just like to keep the inbox for new and current items only.
2: About 3 months worth - I archive emails fairly regularly.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You're off my Christmas list.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If it's any consolation, I have one user on my domain whose mailbox limit is currently 5GB, and I'll have to extend it soon as she's up to 83% full ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Wouldn't be easier to ask her to delete some things?
Be careful, outlook used to have problems managing big pst files (4 Gb or so)
I don't know the new versions though
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The easiest thing is to do nothing. Then the problem will soon take care of itself.
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I've tried that before - it doesn't help as she can't decide what to get rid of ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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My previous employer did an end run around that by banning local PST files, configuring the main serverside inbox to delete everything after a fixed period of time (6 months?), and creating a new serverside archival folder that started empty and had a relatively small cap (100mb) and then left it to employees to figure out what to save.  Naturally no overhead was allowed to be charged for doing so. 
The bitter cynics - aka everyone still there - called it the evidence destruction policy behind senior managements back because we were convinced it was being driven in a reaction to previous legal problems. (The top lobbyist for our late congressvermin turned out to be a crook and the feds decided to look at all his clients.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Wow - I learned a new word this morning - niggle.Something that causes slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, or anxiety.
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Which version of Outlook? I'm using 2019 - confusingly called "version 2010", build 13328.20292 - and the search box in the titlebar works OK.
If you search from the Inbox, it defaults to "current mailbox", but you can change that from the ribbon or the drop-down within the box. For any other folder, it defaults to "current folder".
Both the ribbon and the drop-down within the search box have additional options, so you don't have to remember the syntax for eg: finding email from a specific person.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OK, I see now.
You have to click in the search box and then notice that the background has added a Search tab to the ribbon which contains the options.
Not something I would promote as New and Improved. New and Unexpected, maybe.
C'est la vie
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I have been using it for months and never noticed that Search tab.
Thanks for pointing it out.
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The "Search" ribbon only appears when I click in the search field or select a mail folder. When I leave those fields, it goes away. It would be nice if we could make the search tools option a permanent part of outlook's ribbon.
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I confirmed your latest message as spam when it came up in moderation a few minutes ago because the link to your app would be seen as that, even if you did not intend it that way.
However, I haven't reported you as a spammer because I don't believe (based on your history) that this was a deliberate attempt.
Many of our members are a lot more trigger-happy than I, though - so it's probably a good idea to not post app links, no matter how proud of your code you are ...
You may find that for a short time, all your posts go to moderation - this is normal as the spam detector is designed to protect us from people who experiment with different ways to get their crap though!
Please feel free to post the message again - but without the link, this time?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Fine. I understand.
But since I no longer have the text of the reply to which you refer I think I shall just let it go.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I guess they should've added a flashy new icon to call out the change. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Mine is Insider 13430, and works as you have described. A bit distracting that the dropdown from the top hides part of the ribbon which changed to Search.
Works much better than my workplace O2010/Exchange combo.
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Thanks for that.
I hadn't notices the search ribbon before and I've been using it a while now. It's the drop down that hides it.
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In our organisation, we have been told to hold off use of new outlook for Mac.
Quote: There are several existing features not supported by this new experience that may lead to issues with delegates, shared mailbox access, and online archiving
I think it's released but a Beta version.
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