Previews of attachments... disabled?

While evaluating WDS v 2.06.5.5378 I am confused by the following issue:

In the list of found Documents there are several Acrobat 7 documents. All display in the preview pane except for one. The one that won't display a preview, while the filetype is Adobe Acrobat 7 doc -- just like all the others, in the Folder column it shows to be an attachment to an Outlook email in my Inbox. In the preview pane there's a yellow box saying "Previews of attachments with this file extension are disabled".

How does one enable previews of PDF attachments I should think since WDS is able to show previews of actual PDF files it should be able to show this one, too.

Also, I noticed that before I installed "ifilter60.exe" WDS found my test words in PDFs and displayed their previews. So what is the point of installing ifilter60

Thanks!



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Previews of attachments... disabled?

  • davidg12

    Did you ever solve this I'm having exactly the same problem you reported, including that I see nothing under Preview that would allow me to solve the pdf problem.


  • Roadster

    Dear Paul,

    When u click "advanced" there is no Preview Pane. All you get is Index settings and file types. Kevin. Please advise how to turn on preview of pdf files



  • Jean-Philippe Pagé

    trwd,

    To turn on preview of .pdf attachments do the following:

    Right click on the magnifying glass in the system tray and select Desktop Search Options.

    In the resulting window select Advanced.

    Add the .pdf file extension to the box listed under Preview Pane: Preview attachements (make sure you separate .pdf from the other extensions using a semi-colon).

    Click OK and restart your computer.

    Paul Nystrom - MSFT



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