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I have updated to windows 11 and my outlook is continually trying to index and is paused alot.
I have installed all updates.
It gets to over 200,000 items indexed then pauses and starts again.
Can you please help with this problem
Thank yo
Dean
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Thanks but already tried that. Yes windows search then works but the options available are more or less none existent compared to the outlook version - when it works !
@JoBo,
Please see my post specifically directed to you. My post to you would not affect the search options in Outlook, only performance.
Yes I saw your post on the search speed. Not sure it would help me as pc has not been doing anything - I just leave it on with task manager running. Processor just using 0-10% resources. Giving higher priority wouldn’t make much difference ? I have about 300k items to index
You are very lucky in being able to complete the rebuild within 5 - 6 days. I have had basically similar problems as you. However, co-incidentally or otherwise, since a Windows 11 update last weekend, even re-build is now effectively stuffed and will not work. I have tried the rebuild countless times over the past few days, all without success, as they either totally stall or progress at a minute rate. To give some examples, the rebuild had indexed 7 files after 3 hours, or 5 files after 9 hours (left on overnight with nothing else running, or this morning 16 files after 3 hours. At times this has meant that if the same rate of rebuild continued, it would take something like 900 years to complete - somehow I don't think that either I or my computer will last that long. Based on the continuing slow continuing saga this morning, it is going to take something like 56,000 hours to complete or more than 6 years. This Microsoft issue has become farcical. John
When i first posted this problem on 6 December 2021, and after suffering for more than a month with the indexing issues., i would not have thought the problem would still be there in June 2022. Generally a problem like this would be fixed with a few updates and a bit of code. There must be something more to the problem that microsoft cannot fix.
I fixed my indexing problems by wiping windows 11 off my computer and reinstalling windows 10. Have not has any issues with indexing since. I keep getting offers to upgrade to windows 11 which i decline.
I feel for people who are having continuing problems with indexing as it is very debilitating as we all rely on the data that is stored on our computers.
Dean