After I downloaded the Mac Ventura OS, my Outlook is not searching email. Advice?

This hasn't worked. In fact it's made it worse. Classic outlook search facility won't work at all now although it does work on the online archive. It also works if I switch to the distinctly unlikeable new outlook.

When you do put the code in terminal for Off then On… restart the machine and then give it time… let it sit… because I have so many emails, mine took about 4 hours until it got settled.

If you waited longer than that then something is not right. But it should work. Just let the machine do its thing. If you keep trying different methods without waiting 2-3 hrs to see results it wont work.

Hope this help.

Thanks. I'll be more patient and let you see if it works.

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.

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:

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