How do I find an attachment?

I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a Microsoft
Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years ago and I can't
remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or the subject line - nor can
I remember what the Powerpoint file was called.

I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can search by
attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must stress, the
attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such, but is still an
attachment to an email - in other words, I did not right-click on the
attachment and select either "Save" or "Save As". It is just a mail message
with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps only
turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the hundred(s) I have as
mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete

The first thing I would do is to move all your messages from the Inbox to
user created folders and keep them about 300MB max in size. You are lurking
on the edge of losing all your messages.

I don't have any real good answer for you, but you could make a message rule
based on attachments or size and apply it manually to narrow things down
some, but you'll still have some work ahead for you.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a Microsoft
Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years ago and I can't
remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or the subject line - nor
can I remember what the Powerpoint file was called.

I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can search by
attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must stress, the
attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such, but is still an
attachment to an email - in other words, I did not right-click on the
attachment and select either "Save" or "Save As". It is just a mail
message with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps only
turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the hundred(s) I have as
mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete

What Bruce said.

To narrow down your Search, you could create a (Mail) Message Rule reading
"Where the message has an attachment, highlight it with [color]." After
applying the rule manually (APPLY NOW) button & applying the rule to Local
Folders, all messages with an attachment (of any sort) will be colored.


Pete Zahut wrote:
I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a Microsoft
Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years ago and I can't
remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or the subject line - nor
can
I remember what the Powerpoint file was called.

I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can search by
attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must stress, the
attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such, but is still an
attachment to an email - in other words, I did not right-click on the
attachment and select either "Save" or "Save As". It is just a mail
message
with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps only
turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the hundred(s) I have as
mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete

http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
This program will save all attachments so that you could search for the
attachment.
--
Ron Sommer

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a Microsoft
Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years ago and I can't
remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or the subject line - nor
can I remember what the Powerpoint file was called.

I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can search by
attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must stress, the
attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such, but is still an
attachment to an email - in other words, I did not right-click on the
attachment and select either "Save" or "Save As". It is just a mail
message with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps only
turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the hundred(s) I have as
mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete

....for US$25.00.

Ron Sommer wrote:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
This program will save all attachments so that you could search for the
attachment.

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a Microsoft
Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years ago and I can't
remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or the subject line - nor
can I remember what the Powerpoint file was called.

I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can search by
attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must stress, the
attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such, but is still an
attachment to an email - in other words, I did not right-click on the
attachment and select either "Save" or "Save As". It is just a mail
message with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps only
turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the hundred(s) I have
as
mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete

Thanks folks, that trick of highlighting messages with attachments worked
well and I found what I wanted quite easily - however, I'll also make sure
to save all the messages to a different folder as Bruce suggested because I
don't want to lose them.

Thanks again,

Pete

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
...for US$25.00.

Ron Sommer wrote:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
This program will save all attachments so that you could search for
the attachment.

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a
Microsoft Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years
ago and I can't remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or
the subject line - nor can I remember what the Powerpoint file was
called. I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can
search
by attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must
stress, the attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such,
but is still an attachment to an email - in other words, I did not
right-click on the attachment and select either "Save" or "Save
As". It is just a mail message with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps
only turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the
hundred(s) I have as
mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete

Pete

In Outlook Express place the cursor on the Inbox in the Folder List and
select View, Current View and uncheck Group Messages by Conversation.
Next sort the date received column by clicking on the column header so
that the newest messages appear at the top of the Message List window.

Next select View, Columns and check the box Attachment. Then use the
Move Up option to move Attachment to the top and click on OK. In the
Message List window click on the Attachment column header once or twice
so that all the Attachments are listed at the top of the Window. They
should be in date order. You can then scroll down to those from 2 years
ago and hopefully identify the message and attachment you are looking
for.

--


Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



Pete Zahut wrote:
I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a Microsoft
Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years ago and I can't
remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or the subject line -
nor can I remember what the Powerpoint file was called.

I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can search by
attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must stress, the
attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such, but is still
an attachment to an email - in other words, I did not right-click on
the attachment and select either "Save" or "Save As". It is just a
mail message with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps
only turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the hundred(s)
I have as mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete

Bruce suggested different folders, not folder. I am sure that your Sent
Items also has a lot of messages. Move messages to new folders for it also.
You should also compact after moving messages from the Inbox and Sent items.

You can add Attachment and Size columns to the message list pane. Clicking
on Attachment header will sort by all messages with attachments. Then look
at the size. A pps attachment would be a large size.
You could click on Size header and look at the larger size messages.
--
Ron Sommer

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
Thanks folks, that trick of highlighting messages with attachments worked
well and I found what I wanted quite easily - however, I'll also make sure
to save all the messages to a different folder as Bruce suggested because
I don't want to lose them.

Thanks again,

Pete

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
...for US$25.00.

Ron Sommer wrote:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
This program will save all attachments so that you could search for
the attachment.

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a
Microsoft Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years
ago and I can't remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or
the subject line - nor can I remember what the Powerpoint file was
called. I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can
search
by attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must
stress, the attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such,
but is still an attachment to an email - in other words, I did not
right-click on the attachment and select either "Save" or "Save
As". It is just a mail message with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps
only turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the
hundred(s) I have as
mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete

You're welcome & I echo what Ron said.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
Thanks folks, that trick of highlighting messages with attachments worked
well and I found what I wanted quite easily - however, I'll also make sure
to save all the messages to a different folder as Bruce suggested because
I don't want to lose them.

Thanks again,

Pete

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
...for US$25.00.

Ron Sommer wrote:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
This program will save all attachments so that you could search for
the attachment.

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a
Microsoft Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years
ago and I can't remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or
the subject line - nor can I remember what the Powerpoint file was
called. I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can
search
by attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must
stress, the attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such,
but is still an attachment to an email - in other words, I did not
right-click on the attachment and select either "Save" or "Save
As". It is just a mail message with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps
only turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the
hundred(s) I have as
mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete

And whatever you do, make sure you have your OE messages folder in your
back-up set. Best would be to move it to be in the same directory as your
other data files.

In my case I created a seond partition on my HDD and shifted all my data
files to there, incl OE.

IMHO leaving data files in the default locations (as specified by the apps)
means they are scattered all over the place.

And back up daily at least. (Back-up, not file-copy.) So if you lose your
inbox you will lose only a few messages, if any.

DAS

To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling"
---
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
You're welcome & I echo what Ron said.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
Thanks folks, that trick of highlighting messages with attachments worked
well and I found what I wanted quite easily - however, I'll also make
sure to save all the messages to a different folder as Bruce suggested
because I don't want to lose them.

Thanks again,

Pete

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
...for US$25.00.

Ron Sommer wrote:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
This program will save all attachments so that you could search for
the attachment.

"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message
...
I've got over 3000 mail messages in my OE Inbox, some of them with
attachments. I now need to find a particular message with a
Microsoft Powerpoint attachment, but it's from a couple of years
ago and I can't remember who sent it to me, what date it was, or
the subject line - nor can I remember what the Powerpoint file was
called. I will recognise it when I see it but is there any way I can
search
by attachment, ie, do a search for *.pps in the inbox? I must
stress, the attachment has not been saved to my hard drive as such,
but is still an attachment to an email - in other words, I did not
right-click on the attachment and select either "Save" or "Save
As". It is just a mail message with a paperclip icon.

Going to Start Search Files and Folders and searching for *.pps
only turns up the 18 files I have in My Documents, not the
hundred(s) I have as
mail attachments.

TIA,

Pete