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.