Search On Not Working For Outlook Mac OS Native Spotlight

You may also receive a message Instant search encountered a problem while trying to display search results.

Modifying your query may resolve this problem or Outlook cannot perform your search.

Search On Not Working For Outlook Mac OS Native Spotlight

Additionally, when you search for mail items by using the Mac OS native Spotlight Search, your search is unsuccessful.

You may also be experiencing incomplete results when searching inside Mail.

These instructions can be followed for other versions of OSX and should work but as new versions of OSX are rolled out the locations may change.

Wait a couple of minutes and then remove your OSX disk out of the privacy options.

Open up Spotlight and start typing something you will see that Spotlight is reindexing your computer this could take a while.

I removed the hard drive from the search, waited a few minutes and added it back in.

My boot disk on my iMac is an external SSD, because the iMac Main disk failed.

If I type fi, there are three suggestions, none of them my long term partner of whom there are hundreds of emails.If I select any of the offerings to search for, no emails are ever turned up.

Search On Mac Not Working For Outlook