Ventura (B1 and B2) Spotlight Search and Outlook Emails

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Created Jun ’22

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Since installing Ventura Beta , doing a spotlight search does not find any email messages (from outlook profile) . I've done all the the standard type items eg reindexing spotlight etc, all to no avail. As Outlook itself relies on spotlight for searching this also impact searching in outlook. What is interesting to em is that when there was the outlook search not working issues initially with Monterey, Spotlight was still finding messages, which sound logical.

I see no logic as to why spotlight is now not returning any email messages in the spotlight search.

Any thoughts... do others have the same issue?

M1 Mac Book Pro 13" Venture Beta 2 (also same under beta 1) Outlook 365

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SMR9999 OP

Jul ’22

I have just downloaded Ventura Beta 4 and done a full Spotlight Reindex and the problem remains....I've reported to both Apple and Microsoft. I am running the latest beta of MS Outlook also (16.64 (22072501))

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ashy87 OP

Sep ’22

Similar issues faced, I have tried tirelessly to complete all the suggested remedies and had no joy. The only thing I did notice is one of the re-index commands is no longer supported from Microsoft's help page. I assume this is a Ventura change?

jordan@LT4987 ~ % mdimport -g "/Applications/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook Spotlight Importer.mdimporter" -d1 "/Users/jordan/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles/Main Profile"

'-g' no longer supported. Importers may only be tested by installing them.

I did once get it working but it stopped a few days later and I'm sure I've repeated everything I did before and now it will not fix. Frustratingly I cannot be sure which of my many steps made the difference last time.

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gmeltzer OP

Nov ’22

In the Ventura release version, Outlook search is still dead. Micro$soft says to switch to the new "children's version" of Outlook as the answer. I don't think they will ever fix the adult "classic" version of Outlook to work on Ventura.

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