Massive slowdown in Outlook after Mountain Lion upgrade

30. October 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , ,
Hi:

I just upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion and most things seemed to go well.

However, Outlook is now incredibly, painfully slow. I get the SBBOD (Spinning Beachball of Death) with almost anything I type.

Has anyone else run into this? If so, does anyone have suggestions as to how to get Outlook's performance back to normal?

Thank you very much!

Details:

  • OS 10.8.2
  • Outlook 2011 14.2.4
  • Like many, I'm using an encrypted disk image to store the Microsoft User Data file for security reasons. I reindexed the mounted disk image (using sudo mdutil -E /...) but this did not help.

When using Outlook 2011 for Mac, the computer slows down randomly, appears that the Microsoft AU Daemon is the culprit

21. September 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , ,

When using Outlook 2011 for Mac, the computer slows down randomly. We can start typing and for no reason the beachball will appear for an extended period of time.

 

We've archived all email older than 3 weeks, cleaned up caches, ran updates and rebuilt the mailbox but the issue persists.

 

It appears that the Microsoft AU Daemon is the culprit, but I have no idea how to fix it.

 

Any ideas?