Ms Outlook For Mac 2016 Reindex The Spotlight Index

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Outlook 2016 search items not working (Mac / Office 365).

• 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. To add an item to the Privacy tab, you must 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.

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Spotlight will reindex the contents of the folder or disk.

• Open File, Options, Search. (In Outlook 2007 it's Tools, Options ) • Click Indexing Options button • Click Advanced button • Click Rebuild Control Panel To rebuild the index from the Control Panel: • Open the Control panel and type ' search' or ' indexing options' in the Search field. • Click on Indexing Options. • After the Indexing Options dialog opens, click Advanced • Click Rebuild. Find and Delete Index files to Rebuild the Index While it's generally better to use the Rebuild button when you need to rebuild the index, you can delete the search index files from the hard drive to force Windows to rebuild the index. Delete all files and folders in these directories: C: programdata microsoft search data temp C: programdata microsoft search data applications windows After you reboot, Windows will start to index your Outlook files all over again.

Thanks for the tip 'Find and Delete Index files to Rebuild the Index': this worked great for me! I have Outlook 2016 running on Windows 10. The 'Rebuild the Search Index from within Outlook' always resulted in error messages saying that I didn't have sufficient priviledges for the folders (or something of the sort). Couldn't make it work and the Outlook search just didn't retrieve the correct results, eventhough the status said 0 elements remaining to index. Mac program emulator for windows. I needed to abort some 'Microsoft Windows Search' processes via Task Manager, since they were locking the files / folders.

But after successfully removing the files and rebooting, Windows / Outlook begain reindexing everything.