You can also set Lookout to search for data files on your local system.
Two of the programs I tried work primarily with Outlook data: Caelo Software’s NEO Pro and Lookout Software’s free Lookout plugin for Outlook (Lookout was recently acquired by Microsoft). The nine tools can do more than simple email and data-file searches my tests focused on finding that Spanbauer file and locating all files on a single subject (travel books). I limited the email tests to Microsoft Outlook because it is the most widely used Windows email program. doc file in my 750MB data megafolder, which held 1110 assorted files and 43 sub-folders.
I chose nine file-search utilities, known and not so well known, and tried using each to unearth that lost Spanbauer file in either or both of two locations: as an attachment among my 30MB of Outlook data (comprising 1104 files) and as a. (The next Outlook, expected in 2005, and the next Windows, codenamed Longhorn and due in 2006, will ostensibly offer superior search functions.) As I scanned through rows of file names in Explorer, I saw my quest: to discover the best finder of lost data files. The search functions built into Windows and Outlook came up empty. That’s all he remembered about it - no file name, no date, nothing. My boss recently gave me a simple task: find the original version of a Scott Spanbauer Internet Tips column about wireless network security from a few years ago.
But that can’t be! As you know the file arrived as an email attachment, you open Outlook, click Find, type your term, click Find Now and see “No items found”. A banana and half a sports section later, you get the news: “Search is complete.
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