I've just noticed an odd behaviour with Outlook 2011 for Mac. I search for a word/sender/phrase etc. in a set of mails in a folder. The search only finds items created on or before 29 November. For messages after this date the search result is blank - even if I cut and paste a word from the mail into the search box. The search result is blank or only includes messages prior to 30Nov2012.
Just to be clear - if *** Email address is removed for privacy *** sent me a message about Doom on 28 Nov 2012 and a message about Doom on 6 Dec 2012 and they are still in my Inbox then a search for "xyzzy" or "dungeon" or "*** Email address is removed for privacy ***" or "Doom" will only return the 28 Nov message in the search results.
Spotlight finds all the messages OK - and the Microsoft data folders are not in the Spotlight Privacy box, so I don't think it's a Spotlight issue. There are no folders in the Spotlight Privacy box.
I've tried re-building the database with <option+click><rebuild>. The rebuild reported a successful rebuild but the search behaviour is still as above.
MBA 10.7.5
Outlook 2011 14.2.5
Thanks in advance for any help.
Even after recievng about 5 emails from facebook in the last 24 hours and over 50 from ebay, when i type 'ebay' in the search box, no results are shown.
I have tried 4-5 different computers and tried to search for different words. No search results found - everytime.
The search feature is totally inactive. Without this I am unable to use the Hotmail account as needed, I need to find old emails which are needed for my everyday work, i can find them.
But what I have tried to figure out - if I find ONE of them, (From the same sender), then i can click on 'Sweep', and click on 'Move all from...' and make a new folder to get them all moved to. But this would mean I need a folder for each sender, this is not the way forward...
I hope this method helps people temporarily, but right now I need help finding them only emails...
PLEASE HELP.
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