Rebuild Index Of Microsoft Outlook Mac
Outlook for Mac uses the macOS native Spotlight search as its search index. It turns out these Spotlight search indexes were out of date or corrupted for the relevant Outlook directories. Not sure why. Here is how to rebuild the Spotlight search indexes for Outlook for Mac 2016 (run in a terminal). Dec 18, 2019 How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac If searching your Mac doesn’t return expected results, rebuilding the Spotlight index might help. Microsoft word 2011 mac free product key. Choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
Mail User Guide
You may need to rebuild a mailbox to update the list of messages it contains. For example, if messages appear to be missing or garbled, or if you can’t find all relevant messages when you search using the Entire Message search option.
In the Mail app on your Mac, select a mailbox in the sidebar.
Choose Mailbox > Rebuild.
When you rebuild mailboxes for IMAP or Exchange accounts, messages and attachments stored on your computer are discarded, and then downloaded again from the mail server to your Mac. Your mailbox appears empty until the download is complete.
Rebuild Index Outlook 2013
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
- Click the Privacy tab.
- Drag the folder or disk that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the add button (+) and select the folder or disk to add.
You can add an item to the Privacy tab only if you have ownership permissions for that item. To learn about permissions, choose Help from the Finder menu bar, then search for “permissions.” - From the same list of locations, select the folder or disk that you just added. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list.
- Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the folder or disk. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed.