[Hidden-tech] Annoying Outlook anomaly

Ed Bride Ed at edbride-pr.com
Fri Oct 24 10:41:23 EDT 2014


Thanks, all those who responded on- and off-list. This did the trick.

Ed
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gyepi SAM [mailto:self at gyepi.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 9:01 AM
To: Ed Bride
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Annoying Outlook anomaly

Sounds like your search index is corrupted or lost.

This page should help

https://support.office.com/en-US/Article/Instant-Search-is-not-finding-all-t
he-items-I-expect-1eb50282-0fa3-4a04-8db4-ee1c14fa97ab

In particular, note the section that describes your problem.

-Gyepi

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 08:32:08PM -0400, Ed Bride wrote:
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> HTers,
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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 says they're not.
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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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> Thanks,
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> Ed
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