How to solve search option issue in Outlook for Mac

[@jakkabhargava6894]

Dear Channel owner Boxer (Hard/Smart Worker). I have been searching this type of practical videos for the past 4 months. Finally I found Knowledgeable Video........... Thank you soo much. Keep going this type of practical videos....

[@FoodieTownCA]

You are a lifesaver! Just migrated my dad's old computer and the search wasn't working. Did this and works beautifully! Thank you!

[@cck_9800]

After reading a few pages and a few videos, this was by far the very best (and fastest) way to a resolution. Thank you so much.

[@planesenseaviationmd6262]

This is brilliant - thank you so much. I couldn't find this information from either Microsoft or Apple and you have brilliantly provided a solution to a very irritating problem.

[@helsnic]

Just swapped from my air to a pro and lost the search function. This video is excellent, already my search index has returned. Thank you!

[@GregersR]

Thank you so much for this clear instruction video - I've spend at least one hour reading articles etc to this problem, but none of them resolved the issue. This video did! Thanks 👍

[@stucirulnick]

I've waited about 2 hours and the fix hasn't taken effect. Do I need to restart Outlook? Leave it open while it works behind the scenes? I haven't had the same luck as some of the other users below.

[@LiamOCtv]

Concise and informative. Tells you exactly what you need to know. Thanks Jinu!

[@MmePrez]

The video was great and worked for most. But not for me! However, I found the solution. I have a Mac M1 OS Ventura 13.4. I tried the above steps. Didn't work. Finally got a hold of a Microsoft "Level 2" tech support representative. First, I quit the Outlook app. Then followed the steps in this video. BUT after adding in the Spotlight Privacy box the Main Profile and the New Profile folders (which were the 2 folders I had in the Outlook 15 Profiles folder). she also had me add the Mac HD icon (that's on my desktop) into the Spotlight "privacy" box. Click Done. Then, as explained in this video, reopen the Spotlight Privacy box. Take out all three folders. Click Done. I then opened Spotlight in the Menu bar of my mac and put "outlook" in the search field. Don't press "return" when you do that. Just let it be. A blue indexing "progress" bar should appear. Took 1.5 hours to index. When done, I opened the Outlook app. Did a test search. Voilà. Works like a charm! Hallelujah! Hope this helps.

[@haroldm8435]

This did the trick. Thanks for sharing!

[@aquashotgolf]

This WORKED!!! Thank you for the very informative instructions!

[@aceonweb]

WOW! This actually worked like magic! I just migrated from my 2015 macbook pro to a new macbook air. Everything moved over but a few glitches. One of them was not to be able to search my outlook. This was incredibly frustrating since I spend almost my whole day in my emails and looking through old emails etc... anyways. This seems kind of silly and too easy. but it works!! 2020 Macbook air M1. Running latest microsoft outlook app.

[@ooomier6997]

This was the easiest and quickest solution to my problem. Thank you so much for this video!

[@getrajesh]

Thanks for putting up this video. It worked ! And saved me a lot of research and reading through blogs and what not.

[@hojojo9948]

LOVE IT!! This solved my issue after i used time machine it stopped working but this fixed the issue! Thanks a million! ;)

[@frankguinn9032]

I lost both mu email search and my contact search, so this was really useful. Thank you so much for this Jinu.

[@magdalenadamrath5692]

Hi Man!!! Thank you so much! It is working. Great video. People do not waste your time on Microsoft help websites!!!

[@andyphan36]

Thanks a lot for the video. Its helps a lot. now my search is working again.

[@runhard-alwaysfinish1108]

Worked perfectly...excellent video

[@abrahamruvalcaba]

Thank You for your Help. Direct to the point and well explained . Thanks

[@Egregiousdriver]

Worked perfectly. Thank you!

[@dimitri0707]

My dear friend, I must say that you rock in a way most cannot !!! Awesome - it worked immediately. 7 thumbs up

[@mohdalhmoud3548]

It works for me! thank you so much for the GREAT video!!!

[@krishnapanchal1553]

Hi thank you so much for your video! for some reason I am unable to get this to work. I also read somewhere that this won't work for OS Mojave or newer. Is there another way around this?

[@ozanbartik]

This worked like a charm, thank you!

[@Liong-xx5ds]

Thanks for your sharing, It really helpful!

[@namanhhuynh7735]

Thank you very much My problem is solved. This video is so useful

[@guitrodrigues]

Great material! Thanks a lot! Cheers from Brazil.

[@Mayank_Upa]

Thanks man. You have my respect.

[@CPEdgarUHdez]

Thank you very much for the video. It was very useful. Best regards.

[@MulyadiRahmat]

Thank you! Thank you! This was VERY helpful!

[@tringuyen8292]

you are so amazing, thank you!!!

[@lebazilio]

Obrigado aqui do Brasil, você resolveu uma coisa que ja estava muito tempo incomodando !! Obrigado, THANKS A LOT !!

[@TheImrankhan1983]

well done it really worked for me, thanks for this nice video. make more videos like this for Mac :).

[@andreasummers537]

Thank you! It worked!

[@paknotaris7518]

Hi Jinus, I'm trying to solve this problem on my Mac Ventura but I can't see the UBF8 folder in the library. Could you please tell me how to find it or if the video solution does not apply to Ventura? Thank you in advance for your help. Alex

[@JinusTechVideos]

I havent checked in ventura

[@paknotaris7518]

I changed from "legacy" to the new Outlook version of Outlook for Mac and the problem was solved. However, I'd very much prefer to continue using the legacy version, as it is visually clearer and minimalist. If you come up with a solution for Ventura, please let us know. Thank you!@@JinusTechVideos

[@pace514]

Thank You very much... worked :)

[@kemo5018]

this works - thanks man.

[@DrBenBaak]

very helpful! Thank you. microsoft support itself uses this video to help mac users ;)

[@yan_88tv70]

i love this man! thank you for this video :)

[@C0quit0]

When I move the folder to spotlight ... The outlook should be open or close ??

[@LKYL]

Hi, I have tried this multiple times without any success. Do you have any other suggestions or other videos that might be helpful?

[@AliMusa_streams]

Thank You so much. It was spot on.

[@rnldmts]

Awesome! :) Thank you.

[@briggentrekronor9755]

Excellent description!

[@IceMediaApS]

Thank you very much! :)

[@baboo47]

Merci mille fois pour cette vidéo ! thank you so much

[@demusch]

Thank you sir, that solved my problem.

[@OceanExplorer-z7x]

Did not work for me, but again this is now 2 years later, do you have an update for current software?

[@stevenwpf1]

I wish Microsoft had included your video on their solution page lol, thank you sir

[@javraphael]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!

[@markvlassopulos2543]

you are a genius - thanks!

[@forktongue]

Solved the problem, thanks very much.

[@sophias483]

Very helpful, my problem fixed. Thank you so much

[@ramonloschi8398]

Very good! Thanks

[@wandeleenmedina7636]

Thank you. it worked .

[@renatavettorazzi81]

Thank you. It worked for me.

[@davehookedtv]

Thank you was a great help

[@deanwerny1]

I love you, thank you so much

[@Pam-qq8rw]

Should Outlook be open or closed while doing this procedure?

[@JinusTechVideos]

No need

[@aquashotgolf]

Hi Jinu - is there anything else i need to do if there are multiple users on the same Mac? When I switched users and then came back to my profile, the Outlook search did not work again - it was completely blank when searching for identical items that were indexed before switching users???

[@from0to1M]

similar thing happened to me. It worked for 1 day, and then stopped indexing again. Now I need to figure out how to make it work permanently

[@miguelabascal4973]

Really thank you very much. It works quiclky.

[@pitvipersports]

Thank you!

[@pradhansushil]

This worked for me, thanks!

[@walpio5030]

thanx m8 a lot. good work! u help me very much!!!

[@danielafshar9868]

YES! Thank you for your great solution.

[@briancarton8813]

Thank you worked perfectly

[@furqa9]

Best.... many thankss

[@agencialivemkt9829]

It works. Thanks

[@emilianoveronesi1738]

I don't have the folder "Library".... thus I cannot make it work... can you please help?

[@JinusTechVideos]

If you are using mac there will be library folder

[@joshschrauder4689]

Thank You!!

[@businessdoctors]

thank you Jinu that did the trick

[@HanifKyo]

Thank u brother

[@ScottRGarcia123]

This only worked for my Inbox, BUT NOT for any of my other (lets say 200 +) folders setup in Outlook.

[@chrisschieffer]

Thanks a lot! you rock!

[@charbelkhalil3641]

I tried it , but didn't work in my case any other suggestions? it is really frustrating me this issue, and largely affecting my performance . any one can help? pleasssssse

[@arnoldkaranja7196]

Quite helpful

[@ScottBettersworth]

You are the dude!

[@Geyxel-Fly305]

Great step by step. Good job but i lose it after a couple of days again.

[@YuhannesWatts]

Really helped thanks

[@enzoofashion]

Perfect tks

[@jonasklatt2091]

thank you omg !!

[@3pa23_andienathavanio3]

I Couldn't find the profile 15

[@oladsmighty]

Great!

[@canalliberalismo]

working! ty

[@sarabradford5680]

THANK YOU

[@miked2748]

I don't have a library folder under finder Go dropdown. Now what?

[@JinusTechVideos]

u need to press Alt after clicking go button

thank you Jinus, but i had a problem dude after doing all this steps, i can search, but a few minutes later, it come back with the same issue... :( i did all the steps

[@furqa9]

same here. then what you did?

[@phamduc8848]

I don't see file: group container :(

[@sarabradford5680]

I LOVE YOU

[@dotasmashy9050]

I Cann't search any mail after following this....

[@Harker777]

Yeah...same here. Any search now yields 'no results' Luck of tre draw I guess.

[@zliu1995]

Well, guess what, after 20 min, it stops working. I searched the Internet and found it was a common problem for Monterey. I have to use the web app to search. Not happy.

[@patelkrunal311]

It's crazy this is the only thing that works.

[@caprichosdeana5535]

It didn´t work for me 😒

[@lisafoster7970]

This worked for me. Thanks!