Timeline for Exclude PSTs from Windows Desktop Search Indexing in Windows 10 when they are not open in Outlook 365
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| Nov 17, 2023 at 13:58 | comment | added | Adam J. Kessel | I don’t want it to exclude all Outlook data, only PSTs associated with the non-default profile that are not typically open in Outlook. The control panel does not have any way to exclude individual profiles or PSTs. | |
| Nov 17, 2023 at 9:17 | comment | added | Faery | Try to modify the indexing options in the Control Panel. You can do this by searching and opening Control Panel in Windows search bar, clicking on Modify, unchecking Microsoft application/Outlook and clicking on OK. This will stop Windows Search from indexing any Outlook data, including PSTs. | |
| Nov 13, 2023 at 12:42 | comment | added | Adam J. Kessel | I still want to use WDS to search PSTs that are open in Outlook, just exclude the ones that are not. Searching Outlook without indexing is very slow. | |
| Nov 13, 2023 at 1:53 | comment | added | anon | In Search Index locations, Outlook is separate from Users. You could exclude Outlook and search manually in Outlook. | |
| Nov 13, 2023 at 1:50 | comment | added | Adam J. Kessel | If all of my PSTs are indexed, I end up with well over a million items, which seems to cause problem with index stability. I thought WDS would only index PSTs that are open in Outlook (or in a folder tagged for indexing) but on my box, it seems to be indexing them no matter what I do. | |
| Nov 12, 2023 at 21:41 | comment | added | anon | My Search folder is only 2 GB and I have 11 PST archive files (185,000 items indexed). Outlook files are part of the Index location USERS and I cannot see how to not index just a small part of this. | |
| Nov 12, 2023 at 21:27 | history | asked | Adam J. Kessel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |