Hi Stefan,

I was rather hoping that was *not* going to be your answer.

I much prefer the plain ascii file format, for it allows me to edit it for "mistakes" post submission, 
shall we say. 

> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > I'm starting to get a similar problem to Lance's ("SQL Database").  Searching is beginning to take time.
> > 
> > In searching, I either can search one logbook (still relatively quick), or all of them.
> > 
> > I have my logbooks in groups, and often I know which group I want to search, and it would make the searching
> > much quicker were the search confined to just that group.  I don't think I've missed anything in the
> > documentation on this matter.  
> > 
> > If not a change to the elog program, is there another way of (say) arranging the logbooks that will achieve this?
> 
> You can't do that right now. I would have to extend the functionality to allow searching in groups. Also have a look 
> at https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66901. Maybe that helps a bit in meantime.