If so, uninstalling/reinstalling Office 2016 will save you countless hours of trying different ways to force reindexing of your Outlook email files.
#SEARCH IN MAC OUTLOOK 2016 NOT WORKING HOW TO#
Here's more information on how to check if your situation is the same as mine. I also checked the Outlook 2016 mdimporter and it appears to be the same version after reinstalling Office 2016 as before - so the hypothesis that there is a new Mojave version of the Outlook mdimporter appears to be false. So I'm left thinking that this issue has something to do with how Migration Assistant (in Mojave) handles the transfer of files from a High Sierra computer running Mac Office 2016 to a new one running Mojave. pop), I just let Outlook rebuild all of the mailboxes on my Mac (which took another 6 hours). I was more than a little reluctant to go this route because it involved removing folders from ~/Library which always makes me nervous (if you've done this with another application only to find that your Mac won't boot the next time, you know what I mean).Īfter reinstalling Outlook (be sure to follow the directions to save folders that contain your mailbox data in case you need it), Search in Outlook started to work! Since my mailboxes are imap (vs. Update: While I wasn't able to find a more surgical solution to this problem, Microsoft Outlook Support suggested that I uninstall/reinstall Mac Office 2016. I'm also working through Microsoft and will post an update when I get this resolved. This is for 2016 Mac Outlook specifically. I can see through searching that a number of people are having problems with Mac Outlook Search.
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This is the CodeResources file in ~/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook Spotlight importer.mdimporter/Contents/_CodeSignature/ (I know Microsoft Office 2011 is in the aforementioned path, but I upgraded to Microsoft 2016 a few years back) Question: Is there a Mac Outlook 2016 mdimporter specifically for Mojave?
#SEARCH IN MAC OUTLOOK 2016 NOT WORKING FOR MAC#
In looking at the mdimporter for Mac Outlook 2016, it looks like it is the same version (same "_CodeSignature") as the version on the High Sierra MBP. The meta-data attribute on the working MBP (High Sierra) for "kMDItemKind" is "olk15_message".īut on the new 2019 MBP running Mojave, the kMDItemKind is "Document". I've narrowed the problem down to the meta-data stored for Outlook 2016 email files on the Mac.
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You can see all the things that I've tried here: in addition to what I've discovered along the way. However, Spotlight does find these emails. The Search function in Mac Outlook 2016 returns "No Results" when searching for emails, etc. I used Migration Assistant on a new 2019 Macbook Pro running Mojave (10.14.5) to migrate from a 2016 Macbook Pro running High Sierra.