Outlook MAC search not working on Monterey

Anonymous
2021-11-11T08:07:33+00:00

I have a new MBP M1, with fresh Monterey. I moved my data with the assistant from the old MBP, I have all the letters in Outlook (v15.46), but search in Outlook not works, it gives a "No results found" message in all folders. Old methods for reindex Spotlight is not working (eg. add and remove Main Profile to Spotlight). How can I solve this problem? Thanks

Today I deleted the Main Profile, remove all mail accounts, and made a new profile, and add a mail address. But the search still not works.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-07-20T09:39:31+00:00

    So what fixed it for me, is something someone suggested several pages ago. I dragged the main disk icon to the Privacy tab in spotlight, closed the preferences window, opened it again and then removed the disk from there. After that it started to index and within about 30 mins to an hour I was getting SOME search responses and the next morning it was working perfectly.

    I had previously tried just moving the profile folder, but that did not work. I can only guess that there are files somewhere else in the disk that needed indexing.

    So the trick, for me, was to have spotlight reindex the whole disk.

    And now I have search results in Outlook in Mac Monterey

    I'd be really grateful for your help.

    You say:

    • I dragged the main disk icon (what's that? where?)
    • to the Privacy tab in spotlight (what's that? where?),
    • closed the preferences window, opened it again and then removed the disk from there (I don't understand, "removed the disk"? please could you help me on this one).

    I am SO angry. I spend a fortune on a new macbook with Monterey 12.3, I pay for Outlook for Mac 16.63, and I expect these things to work. I'm a normal, working, intelligent person but not a tekkie. Why should I have to waste my valuable time resolving these issue?

    So grateful for an idiots guide on how to resolve this one. I really need to be able to search in Outlook to find emails quickly.

    Thanks a million!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-07-19T16:00:36+00:00

    Thank you very much Paul.

    The same method worked for me : re-index the whole drive resolved the problem ;)

    have a nice day

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-06-23T13:55:27+00:00

    Thank you very much !!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-06-23T13:14:29+00:00

    Microsoft doesn't tell you until after the fact, the only way to get a read receipt is with @outlook.com domain.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-06-23T10:08:57+00:00

    Resarch on my new MacBook Pro M1 doesn't work either. I have try all steps of reindexation of my Spotlight but still doesn't work. Still it works on new Outlook version but this new outlook version doesn't propose "acknowledgment of receipt" function neither "read receipt" .... Nobody knows how to fix this problem ...

    Has anybody find a solution since ?

    Many thanks to you all

    Regards

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