Outlook 16.23.1 not searching correctly on Mojave 10.14.4

Anonymous
2019-04-04T21:28:30+00:00

I've had intermittent problems where the search function in Outlook on my Mac would stop working. In the past, I had a reliable fix that I found somewhere online; I ran the following in Terminal:

mdimport -g ‘/Applications/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook Spotlight Importer.mdimporter’ -d1 ‘/Users/USERNAME/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles/Main Profile’

... where USERNAME was the home directory name on my Mac. This took a while to run, but worked like a charm every time.

But I recently upgraded to Mac OS 10.14.4 (Mojave), and apparently this command is no longer supported in Terminal. Now when I try to run it, I get the error:

'-g' no longer supported. Importers may only be tested by installing them.

To be honest, I don't really know what the "-g" parameter means. Any ideas on how to resolve? I'm a bit out of my depth here and don't want to do something that makes things worse.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-10-22T21:18:47+00:00

    I tried all of the steps mentioned here, and also some steps on other sites. Nothing worked.

    So, as a last ditch effort, I dragged the "MainProfile" folder out of the "Outlook 15 Profiles" and put it on the desktop. 

    Then waited about 2 seconds, then dragged it back into the "Outlook 15 Profiles" folder.

    Immediately fixed the problem.

    Hope this helps.

    I hoped your solution was helping me, but I didn't.

    I have also the problem after using time machine.

    I have move the MainProfile folder and put it back.

    Went back to outlook and .... nothing happend.

    It is really customer unfriendly from Microsoft to not help paying customers.

    Especially the fact that they know about the problem from nov 2018.

    Really unacceptable.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-10-22T20:59:01+00:00

    I get so tiered of the Microsoft solution. 

    It is always delete everything and then it may work.

    Is it so hard to create software that can be fixed without dropping the problem by the user.

    Who has to fix install or configure al kinds of things himself.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-08-27T16:40:40+00:00

    Finally... Exporting worked for me as well. Mac Outlook 16.16.13, Mojave 10.14.6 (18G95). My search is working again.

    Thank you

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-05-16T18:18:00+00:00

    closing and re-opening did help. It seems to be working now. We'll see how long it last this time

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-05-16T18:08:34+00:00

    How frustrating! I haven’t yet found email that doesn’t properly appear in search results sobce i upgraded to 10.14.5 and deleted/re-added my email accounts. But its inly been a day or two. I’ll post here if the problem re-appears for me.

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