Wait until Spotlight indexing your drive.Īfter indexing restart your computer. This will force Spotlight to create a new index 7. Finally highlight the hard drive you just added and click the minus button to remove it. Then Drag and drop the hard drive icon from the desktop into Spotlight. If so, then remove them, skip the rest steps and try to find something using the Outlook search. Make Sure that the Outlook Profile or Identity folder or one of its parent folders is not added to the Privacy tab. Make sure that Mail Messages is checked under the tab 3. Open the System Preferences and click on Spotlight. Once you done delete the temporary folder. This process will force Outlook to re-index the emails and they start to appear in the results. When the moving is done, move back your messages to the original folder.
Select and move all messages to the new created folder. After running the tool, the ' Check for Updates ' option will be available. Open any Office application such as Word, Excel, or Outlook. If the Profile or Identity name contains a special character, then follow the steps in this Microsoft Article to change the name. First of all, make sure that the Outlook for Mac Profile or the Outlook for Mac Identity data is stored under the correct default location and has no special characters on its name.