It works well and is the best work around.īe aware that the indexing for spotlight outlook is not flash it takes a while. There have been times when I thought the content was in an email when in fact spotlight brought up a.doc. When I do the search the emails which contain my text are there regardless of which folder they were saved into. I have my Spotlight configured to produce email, then docs, the sheets etc etc. This will highlight the message and every folder and sub-folder in its pathcontaining it in bold. The search function was working OK (but I could only search within the year) and then I had to rebuild my database.Īfter I rebuilt it the perameters have changed and I can only search for very recent mail. Meaning, if you have subfolder xyz and a subfolder heirarchy below it, you can no longer search only xyz and its heirarchy.Īs soon as you enable Search subfolders from the Browse window, it defaults to searching all subfolders within the mailbox. Outlook Not Searching Mac Is Notįrustrating that the functionality on Mac is not equivalent to whats on Windows.
Perhaps there is an easy built-in solution I am over-looking Any help would be apprecaited Cheers, Patrick.
A related question Im hoping you might be able to help me with Once you find an email using search in Outlook, how the hell are you supposed to find the folder that contains it I had the same problem when i used Entourage but was able to find a script that would show the source folder.