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I had exactly the same symptoms and your solution worked perfectly - thank you so much...
After I downloaded the Mac Ventura OS, my Outlook is not searching email. Advice?
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I recently downloaded the new Mac Ventura OS. Now my Outlook won't search email folders for the two weeks since I downloaded the OS. I deleted all the Office 365 files then downloaded a new batch. Problem persists. Unfortunately, I can't find advice specific to the Ventura OS.
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2023-03-20T01:12:48+00:00 Thank you - this worked in minutes!!!
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Anonymous
2023-03-17T19:08:55+00:00 appreciate that 👍
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Anonymous
2023-03-17T18:57:17+00:00 Thanks for your help Mathias Schneider3.
John
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Anonymous
2023-03-17T17:44:06+00:00 As I am naturally impatient, and as I have a zillion emails, I typed in to Terminal:
sudo mdutil -X /System/Volumes/Preboot and hit Enter
I then restarted my MacBook Air and typed in:
sudo mdutil -sa Enter
which told me that indexing was enabled.
I restated again and could see (Spotlight icon command + space, then typing indexing:) that indexing was underway. After about an hour, I got my outlook search facility back at last.
Strange this as not everyone is affected in the same way. At the same time as downloading Ventura 13.2.1 last night, I did the same on an identical MacBook Air, the outlook search facility on which was not affected. Maybe that's because that was an upgrade from Ventura 13.1 to Ventura 13.2.1, whereas the machine that was screwed up by last night's download, was from Monterey to Ventura 13.2.1.
Gold to hear that it finally works for you, that was the reason i posted the following above:
There is another issue we can fix when have applied this Method.
As i do not really know if the indexing status of the /System/Volumes/Preboot is important it is indexed when having Ventura installed originally.
To fix that Issue:
Open Finder and go to Applications - Utilities - Terminal and type the following commands (Press Enter after typing each command).sudo mdutil -X /System/Volumes/PrebootNote: When prompted for a password, please type the Mac user password. This would be invisible. Please type the same and hit enter.Once done, restart the mac computer.
Control with:
sudo mdutil -sa
Output should be: ➜
~ sudo mdutil -sa
Password: /:
Indexing enabled.
/System/Volumes/Data:
Indexing enabled.
/System/Volumes/Preboot:
Indexing enabled.
A more precise approach to fix the Outlook Search should be:
sudo mdutil -i off /System/Volumes/Data
sudo mdutil -i on /System/Volumes/Data
Once done, restart the mac computer.
Checking Indexing Status open Spotlight ( cmd + space ) type indexing: