Mac users depend on Apple Mail for day-to-day email use, but as those messages come in and go out your Mailboxes will become bloated. When they do, Mail's performance will suffer and you'll find. Updating Outlook for Mac 2016 may fix it for you. Click on Help - Check For Updates - Check for Updates. Outlook for Mac can be updated to latest 15.22.
Note: The ability to manually repair or rebuild a database is not available in Outlook 2016 for Mac. If a problem such as Outlook data corruption occurs, Office 2016 for Mac automatically repairs and rebuilds the Office database for you. For more information, see About the Office 2016 for Mac database. Jul 13, 2020 Repair Outlook 2016 for Mac or Outlook for Mac 2011. If you perform a search in Outlook 2016 for Mac or Outlook for Mac 2011 and receive a No Results message, or your search is unsuccessful using Mac OS native Spotlight Search, download and run Outlook Search Repair. This Mac Outlook utility checks for duplicate installations and reindexes.
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Before rebuilding the Spotlight index
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- Follow the steps for when Spotlight returns unexpected results.
- If you're having difficulty finding items in the Mail app, follow the steps to rebuild Mailboxes in Mail.
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Rebuild the Spotlight index
Reindex Outlook 2016 For Mac
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
- Click the Privacy tab.
- Drag the disk or folder that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the add button (+) and select the disk or folder to add.
You can add an item to the Privacy tab only if you have ownership permissions for that item. To learn about permissions, choose Help from the Finder menu bar, then search for “permissions.” - From the same list of locations, select the disk or folder that you just added. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list.
- Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the disk or folder. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed.