Recommendations to others considering DocFetcher:
DocFetcher is always getting updated, so they may fix the outlook problem very soon and may even incorporate OSTs as well. But until that happens, I would not use DocFetcher to search Outlook email archives. It sometimes locks up the archive in Outlook which you then have to delete the index in DocFetcher. This not a big problem because DocFetcher indexes the information very fast.
I used to use DocFetcher all the time when Windows Search wasn't very good. But Windows 10 has made a big improvement over the years and is now my default search tool. That is, until it corrupts itself. When Windows search corrupted itself after my last Windows update, DocFetcher was ready to take over. And I still use DocFetcher from time to time just to make sure that Windows found everything I was looking for.
DocFetcher is like a good watch. It's dependable, always works when you need it and you don't even know you have it running. An amazing piece of software and I can't believe it's free... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is DocFetcher solving and how is that benefiting you?
When indexing an Outlook PST datafile, you sometimes get an error message in Outlook about opening an archive that is being indexed by DocFetcher. Removing the index from Docfetcher fixes the problem. And double clicking an email will not open the email in an Outlook window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
