Best way to run indexing for large amount of mails

[Chets]

Hi All


I have a huge mail box with multiple personal folders spread over last 3 years. I need to periodically refer to old mails and I have installed XOBNI to help me with this. I also add PST files periodically from my external hard disk as I do not want to store all my old PST folders in my current computer. So the PST files are attached and detached depending on need.

I would like to know the most optimal way to index all these mail folders and tons of emails. I have used the "Index All Email option but its very slow and I do not know how to run it selectively on specific mailboxes.

Any suggestions??

Thank you in advance

Chets

[richardj]

I tried to use Xobni with a Large email box and several years of mail pst files. My experience is that Xobni is not able to handle large amounts of mail. It slows down outlook considerably to a state I was waiting 10-20 seconds every time to get things done. I have uninstalled Xobni and Outlook is responsive again (as fast as outlook can be ;>)).

Be aware that I had to delete my inbox file en reinstall my inbox (use cached exchange) to get a connection with exchange server again after uninstalling Xobni.

[anjuman]

I had the same experience as richardj. I have 12 PST files of almost 1+GB each and once I indexed them all on Xobni, Outlook came to a crawl. I have WinXP-SP3 w/ 1GB of RAM.

At some point over some days of using Outlook in a limping manner, I had an issue where one of the PST files was not closing because "another program was holding it up" which I suspect was Xobni.

I had to dump by Inbox entirely, create a new profile on Outlook and re-sync with the Exchange server. I have since unloaded all my PST's except one and I'm still using Xobni but it's clear to me that having mulitple PST files indexed by Xobni is NOT a good idea.

[riverrick]

I have about 8gb in archive files ... all indexed by Xobni and Easyreach. I had problems with Outlook slowing to a crawl (laptop XP SP2 with 1G memory). I uninstalled and reinstalled but nothing seemed to work. I went to Best Buy, spent $30 on an additional 1gb of memory, and installed in 5 minutes. All of the performance issues disappeared immediately ... works great. All of my others apps are faster as well.