{"id":302,"date":"2016-07-20T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/?p=302"},"modified":"2018-05-09T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:03:57","slug":"spotlight-issues-in-outlook-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/20\/spotlight-issues-in-outlook-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight issues in Outlook 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people are frequently reporting searches or filtering issues in Outlook 2016.<br \/> Outlook uses Spotlight for the searches and most of these issues are related to Spotlight indexing issues.<br \/> Most of the time, you can correct the issue by simply adding the ~\/Library\/Group Containers\/UBF8T346G9.Office\/Outlook\/Outlook 15 Profiles\/Main Profile folder to the Spotlight Exclude list in the Spotlight System Preferences, then a few minutes later, remove it from the list. This will trigger a proper reindexing of the folder.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, unfortunately, that&#8217;s not enough. That can happen when Spotlight crashes while indexing your Mac, or with weird Spotlight mdimporter conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>You can figure out whether Spotlight crashes by looking for <em>md<\/em>&#8211;<em>related<\/em> (e.g.: <em>mdworker<\/em>) crash logs in either \/Library\/Logs\/DiagnosticReports or ~\/Library\/Logs\/DiagnosticReports<\/p>\n<p>For conflicts, etc. you can use the command <em>mdimport -L<\/em> to list all mdimporters. Sometimes, you&#8217;ll see paths for apps that are no longer on your Mac, or apps that are in the trash, etc.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You can also manually reindex the Outlook identity through the terminal using this command:<\/span><br \/> <code>mdimport ~\/Library\/Group\\ Containers\/UBF8T346G9.Office\/Outlook\/Outlook\\ 15\\ Profiles\/Main\\ Profile <\/code><\/p>\n<p>This approach offers two advantages compared to using the Spotlight Exclude list mentioned before here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When it&#8217;s done, you return back to the regular shell prompt. Using the Spotlight exclude list approach gives you no indication of the progress or completion of the task.<\/li>\n<li>If there is anything wrong, you&#8217;ll see a comment in the Terminal. If everything is fine, you simply get back to the prompt. The Spotlight exclude list approach provides no feedback whatsoever if anything goes wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people are frequently reporting searches or filtering issues in Outlook 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outlook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}