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Newbie  Group: Posters Posts: 30 Joined: 25th November 2005 Member No.: 160,059 Device(s): Palm Tungsten  |
I'm slightly confused by the lack of an obvious 'search' function in WinMobile2005. The general move in software is towards simple, quick, searching to find info. Having used a palm for many years i'd got into the habit of adding metadata to contacts, notes and appointments to enable me to find them without knowing exactly how they were filed.
In Palm a search across say, contacts, for a name would produce results in seconds. I've found a search function on my Prophet (under 'help') but a search of contacts (800 records) takes well over a minute. Am i missing something? How can it be that slow? |
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May 2 2006, 11:04
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 Did I say that out loud?  Group: News Team Posts: 4,530 Joined: 20th August 2003 From: Kent, England Member No.: 13,469 Device(s): Kaiser, Touch |
I don't know about Palm, but the Windows Mobile search can (optionally) search Contacts, Calendar etc as well as the content of Excel and Word files
The more files you have, the longer it will take to search You can narrow down your search (just to Contacts for example) and it should then be much quicker. Change the "Type" to the sort of data you are looking for |
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May 2 2006, 12:39
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 30 Joined: 25th November 2005 Member No.: 160,059 Device(s): Palm Tungsten |
QUOTE(chucky.egg @ May 2 2006, 12:04)  I don't know about Palm, but the Windows Mobile search can (optionally) search Contacts, Calendar etc as well as the content of Excel and Word files that time was just to search contacts (i'd selected that in the search tool) |
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May 2 2006, 13:14
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Did I say that out loud? Group: News Team Posts: 4,530 Joined: 20th August 2003 From: Kent, England Member No.: 13,469 Device(s): Kaiser, Touch |
I just searched Contacts-only (132 records) for "hr" and got 3 matches in 3 seconds.
At that rate, if it's consistent, 800 records should be searchable in 24 seconds give or take. What did you search for? How long did it take? |
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