If searching your mac doesnt return expected results, rebuilding the spotlight index might help. Rebuild the office database outlook for mac office support. Im on an imac late 2014 model with outlook 2016 mac. Outlook is now forced to restore its database and rebuild the index, etc. Outlook for mac uses os x spotlight to search your mailbox. Moreover, when users search for mail items by utilizing mac os spotlight search, the search is not successful. If searching your mac returns unexpected results apple. How to quickly find an email in microsoft outlook for mac duration. Outlook for mac search not working and displays no. How to rebuild the spotlight index on your mac apple support. Outlook does not need to be open while the repair occurs. In outlook 2016 for mac, users receive a message no results, when they try to search specific mail message or task items are not displayed in task folder. This efficient and userfriendly service lets the mac users manage multiple imap, exchange, or icloud email accounts.
All you should do to reindex spotlight is to download the app you can do that here for free and launch it. It somehow forces outlook to index them again and search now finds them again. Until this process is finished, spotlight wont know the contents of your disks and neither will outlook. A search for the appropriate keywords in outlook only turned up yearold emails we use outlook at work. I running into an issue where searching emails are not working in outlook 2016 on a mac. For more information, see about the office 2016 for mac. We all are aware that mac outlook uses os x spotlight to search the data from the mailbox. In rare cases, spotlight can miss a file during index, so rather than reindex an entire drive you can also manually add an individual file to the search index with the mdimport command.
Click the red traffic light button to close system preferences. If your apple mail doesnt seem to be searchable andor has become so slow it seems to hang your mac or even displays incorrect email content. Then outlook opens a new email whenever you click on a mailto. Outlook 2011 email search does not work macrumors forums. Outlook for mac search returns no results, and task items are not. You may need to repair the mailboxes by reindexing your. By the way, i am running windows 7 x64 and made a clean install of office 2010. Outlook reindex on mac in the article to reindex outlook on my macbook with catalina, the article says. This works in most cases, where the issue is originated due to a system corruption. If a problem such as outlook data corruption occurs, office 2016 for mac automatically repairs and rebuilds the office database for you. First of all, make sure that the outlook 2016 for mac profile or the outlook for mac 2011 identity data is stored under the correct default location and has no special characters on its name. Reindexing and rebuilding is so timeconsuming i didnt retry for the x time. How to perform a reindex of your mac spotlight metadata.
This process can take up to an hour or longer depending on the size of your outlook profile. The mail app bundled with mac os x is an excellent email client, but if you have a giant mailbox that has been in use for a long time you may encounter some peculiar problems with sluggishness, message content issues, and searching. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the folder or disk. So after a bit of digging it was determined to be a permission issue on the applicationsmicrosoft office 2011 folder. If outlook is not searching all of your email correctly, you can rebuild the outlook search index to fix this. If a problem such as outlook data corruption occurs, office. Hi there new contributor i have just upgraded office 2016 for mac to office 2019 for mac. Once youve completed these steps, spotlight will begin reindexing the contents of the folders or disks you chose, which may. It takes some time to add newly imported data to spotlight index. Sometimes the search function on your mac stops working the way it should and you get either incomplete or empty search results. It also restores outlook window size and position settings. Searching not working in outlook 2016 mac spiceworks.
Close outlook search repair when a message stating, reindexing has completed. For example, if messages appear to be missing or garbled, or if you cant find all relevant messages when you search using the entire message search option. How to fix outlook search function not working lifewire. Verify that the outlook profileidentity is stored at the default location. Fix search issues by rebuildling your instant search catalog. Due to corrupted index, issues may occur with spotlight search results in mac os x. To search for an exact phrase, enclose it in quotation marks. For more information, see about the office 2016 for mac database.
To rebuild the search index in outlook 2010 and newer. There are a few reasons you could receive a no results message when performing a search in outlook for mac. Unlike other webmails such as gmail or outlook mails, the user can access the emails of mac mail in offline mode. Fixes or workarounds for recent issues in outlook for mac. Adjustments to the search scope current folder, subfolders, all folders didnt make a difference. Due to some changes in macos mojave, this tool no longer works in 10. I think restarted the microsoft search service, which started a new index. Rebuilding index of drives will solve all search related problems and. Outlook 2011 search not working we had this issue surface in my company, most were able to be fixed by reindexing the drive but we had a few that nothing seemed to work. How to fix outlook for mac search returns no results. The body of digitally signed email messages in those outlook versions are indexed if they. How to rebuild the spotlight index on your mac macrumors. Outlook 20162019 search problem of mojave fresh install. Depending on your mac and the contents of its hard disk, reindexing may take several hours to days.
This is not the case, however, for outlook 2016, outlook 20, and outlook 2010. The outlook search repair tool repairs search results within outlook. If youre using outlook 2007, the body of digitally signed and encrypted email message are never indexed. Quit and relaunch the outlook search repair if it reopens upon restarting. This only happens on mojave clean install only, if i install outlook. It could be due to spotlight search indexing is incomplete, the profile name contains special characters, or the outlook 15 profiles folder isnt in the default location. In my case this took about 23 hours on a speedy macbook pro. This tool lets you choose outlook for mac as your default mail application. A very common problem in outlook for mac is its search problems. Office 365 consumer subscribers can get the new outlook for mac by going to their my account page. Outlook 2016 for mac search not working apple community. Reindex spotlight from the command line in mac os x. When outlook s instant search isnt working correctly, you may need to rebuild the search index. Outlook for mac search returns no results, and task.
You may need to rebuild a mailbox to update the list of messages it contains. Outlook for macs search not working if the issue is with your computer or a laptop you should try using reimage plus which can scan the repositories and replace corrupt and missing files. What can i do to force for everything there to be reindexed. Individually reindexing selected files in mac os x. From the same list of locations, select the folder or disk that you just added. Ended by using outlook but not satisfied either and would really come back to mail. What i did was move all messages to another temporary folder within outlook and then back to their respective folders one folder at a time or to whatever messages you want indexed again. Then click the remove button to remove it from the list. Office 365 commercial customers can get the new outlook for mac by accessing their office 365 portal, gear icon office 365 settings software outlook for mac icon or visiting the software page. I dont know if this relative to this forum or not, i have a problem with outlook 20162019 search, it cant search for a words included in the mail body. Its a basic update to enhance the functionality of windows 10. In microsoft outlook 2016 for mac or office for mac 2011, you receive a no results message when you try to search for an email message or apply a filter to a folder, and task items are not displayed in the tasks folder.
The spotlight search option in outlook no longer 314220. How to fix apple mail by rebuilding and reindexing the. How do i rebuild the search index in microsoft outlook. Note the outlook search repair tool displays a reindexing, please wait message while it works. This can take some time, depending on the amount of. The outlook search repair utility will show reindexing, please wait while it works. Check for updates in outlook 2016 for mac or outlook for mac 2011. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed. Outlook for mac search not working and displays no results. You can do this from the windows control panel or from within outlook. The ability to manually repair or rebuild a database is not available in outlook 2016 for mac. Get help with your outlook 2016 for mac questions, and see what others are asking. This tool resets customization that youve made to outlook from the outlook menu preferences.
Mac mail or apple mail app is the inbuilt email client of mac computer with os x 10. How to reindex and fix spotlight search issues on mac os. Normally my troubleshooting steps are to recreate the ost or reindex or creating a new profile. Oddly, spotlight and apple mail had no problems searching for emails, just outlook that couldnt. I am running office 2010, and for some reason my search option within outlook 2010 works, and sometimes not.