Mdimport -g /Applications/Microsoft\ Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft\ Outlook\ Spotlight\ Importer.mdimporter ~/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9. I like doing it through the Terminal, because you know when you get the prompt back that nothing bad happened, and that its done…įor the 64bit versions of Outlook (15.24 and up) you can use the Terminal with the command: in Outlook 2016 for Mac, or a new Identity in Outlook for Mac 2011. You can find some details about the procedure here: Found inside If Spotlight ever seems. This is one of the main upgrades from Office 2011 for Mac, in which the user had to manually rebuild the Office database. Restart Mac, so that it restarts the spotlight services. Perform the following steps to do the same: 1. Please try the steps below to check if it works. We can re-index Outlook 2016 for Mac search database to fix this search issue. It might take some time to reindex your identity though and you might be better off doing it manually. Now, Outlook Mac 2016 user can easily repair and rebuilds the profile as Office 2016 automatically rebuilds the Outlook Mac profile if issues like Outlook data corruption occur. sometimes 'Spotlight' may not behave as expected. My understanding is that the mdimporter (the piece of code Spotlight uses to understand how to index messages, etc in Outlook) might have been at fault in recent versions of Outlook.Īpparently, the problem has since been corrected and the Insider Fast build (15.26 160803) should be fine.