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

Anonymous
2022-11-08T05:36:03+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-07T22:02:54+00:00

    This is the same as suddetuned's reply with a bit more detail. It worked for me quickly and easily bit it is exact.

    I also noticed that it may make a difference if you are using a hosted exchange (ie. Office 365) or Microsoft 365 as an individual consumer application. These are not identical and have different login and other functions. In my case, it is a hosted exchange that provides Office tools.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-08T06:37:05+00:00

    Yep the TERMINAL solution worked to stop/start mdutil.

    I got preboot errors too...but it still worked not too long after a reboot.

    My Monterey machine that I setup after getting my new Ventura MBP 14" showed the same issues, but I expect the fix will work there too.

    Also helps that my Tasks are reappearing again since that seems Spotlight dependent showing only the categories you pick.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-09T22:53:25+00:00

    Thanks! I've run into this issue twice on 2 new Macs (with Ventura OS) and stopping and starting the spotlight index has fixed it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-10T17:52:49+00:00

    My searches in Finder and Outlook were all returning empty on a brand new MacPro M2 Ventura laptop (2023). I did all of the Spotlight settings checks recommended by Apple Support without any success. The Terminal fix recommendation above solved it perfectly. You can see the Indexing progress bar when entering a Spotlight search.

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