[Hidden-tech] Annoying Outlook anomaly

[Doug Lowing]

Could be you have to re-enable search or re-enable indexing.
Here is a place to start:
https://support.office.com/en-US/Article/Instant-Search-is-not-finding-all-the-items-I-expect-1eb50282-0fa3-4a04-8db4-ee1c14fa97ab

I find it helpful to occasionally shut down and reboot the machine.

-Doug

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Ed Bride <Ed at edbride-pr.com> wrote:

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> I run my office on a laptop and docking station, never shut the computer
> off except rarely when installing a software update (iTunes, Windows, AOL,
> etc.). Today, after shutting down and re-starting, my Outlook mail searches
> mostly come up empty. That is, no matter what folder I look into, to try to
> find someone by name or by message content, anything that was posted before
> early afternoon (when the computer started again) is not found by the
> search. The messages are there –I can find them manually--, but the search
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> Has anybody ever run across  this, and if so, did you fix it? How? I did a
> Windows update, shut down, started up again, but no change in behavior.
> It’s very annoying, disruptive, and costly, in terms of my time.
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