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The importer that Outlook adds to the system so that spotlight knows how to index mails is broken / crashy / and needs an update.When you're sure the online search works and the local search is failing, you can be sure of one of four things: Validate that the search fails in Outlook and in spotlight and then works in both immediately (or after 5 minutes if your outlook store is large and indexing into spotlight takes more than a minute to complete).If you can't find it on Micsosoft's servers - then the mailbox content itself has issues. Validate that search works for us in the online version of outlook (we use O365 for our exchange servers so YMMV if you don't).Again this is a rather drastic measure and may take a few hours to rebuild.

If you suspect that there is a more severe issue with Spotlight, have a look at this answer on how to reset Spotlight completely. See the following article from Apple to learn more: How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac.Īfter that macOS will rebuild the index for that folder, which will take a while (up to an hour approximately) depending on your Mac's speed and the size of your Outlook database. You must perform this step for any additional profile folders you have. Once added, remove the folder, and Spotlight will re-index the folder. ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles/ĭrag the "Main Profile" folder to the Privacy tab. Copy and paste the following location into the "Go to the folder:" dialog box and select Go: Quote from the Microsoft support article :Ĭhoose Apple menu, then System Preferences, and then Spotlight.Ī. Therefore, I would recommend to everybody to first try this method. This is a much less intrusive solution, takes about 20 minutes of rebuild time, and often works. The link provided by OP has apparently been updated and now suggests to reset the Spotlight index for the Outlook folder. Most answer here are rather heavy-handed.
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To free some disk space you may want to archive or delete this.
