Indexing problems Outlook - Windows 11

this way we can't use outlook for work anymore....my outlook is completely not working

I have experienced similar problems since the beginning of the year. After a Windows update at the end of last week, indexing failed again and I had to go back to rebuild once again. This time it completed at around 148,000 items, whereas a previous rebuild finished around 290,000 items. Once again, I found that the search function in Outlook would not provide results other than for about a handfull of recent emails. In other words, a totally useless exercise. So once again, I went through the rebuild process. It got to 47,361 items then stalled today. Nothing I tried would get it to re-start. I found a post above which directions on how to restart Indexing, with a slightly different route, because some of the steps listed on my Windows 11 machine did not exist. I went to Control Panel> Windows Tools> Services> right click on Windows Search and click re-start. But nothing happened. I then tried right click on Windows Search, click on stop and then click on start. This time indexing resumed its indexing. I will wait and see what happens now, but it will likely take another two days to complete, if at all. Just checked again and indexing is continuing nicely.

Hi Gabriel

Thanks for the feedback but that won't work for me, I have an average of 400+ emails sent/received a day and I need to be able to use Outlook for many reasons.

I'm rebuilding the index every morning and that seems to wok for now, I will wait another month and, if nothing has changed, I'll get back to Windows 10...what a shame!!!

Thanks for your feedback!

I've tried but it is still very slow; what I'm doing now is to rebuild the indexing every morning...I still need to log in at least 40 minutes before to finish that but it looks like is working for the rest of the day.

Not ideal and, by time to time, it is still missing few emails...odd

This is not just a bug in W11.