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How to Fix Outlook not Searching Mails in Windows 10

Last Updated February 6, 2018 By Subhash D Leave a Comment

While working on the outlook, there are times when you need to search some old mail from sent or inbox folder but the search does not yield the required results. The most common cause behind this partial results is the indexing functionality of windows. In windows 10, you can rebuild the indexing to resolve this issue. Apart from this tweak, you can resolve this problem by following the other tips as explained in step by step instructions with screenshots.

Method-1 Rebuild indexing

To rebuild search index, you can follow the folowing ways to perform this setting.

Open outlook, navigate to File> options. Now, from the right sidebar locate sources and under it click on Indexing Options.

outlook-options

In the next indexing option screen, on the top, it shows the total number of items that are indexed. Now click on Advanced as shown in the screenshot.

indexing-options

Now from the various index settings, navigate to troubleshooting and click on the button named Rebuild. Once you click it, the indexing processing will begin and take time depending on the volume of files in your system.

advanced-options

Bonus Tip: You can also open the indexing options from control panel. Just navigate to Control panel>Indexing options.

Method-2 Modify Indexing

Sometimes this method also works. It is more simple method than above. Open Microsoft Outlook and open File>options> search>Indexing options.Now click on Modify button.

indexed-locations

Now deselect the Microsoft Outlook radio button. Click OK and exit the Microsoft outlook. Now restart the outlook and again select the Microsoft outlook from the Indexing locations. In most cases, this resolves the indexing issues in searching mails from various folders.

Method-3 Repair pst file


Although the above two solutions will solve your indexing problem, in some cases this issue is related to corruption of pst file, the database file of outlook. To repair this file, you need to run the scanpst.exe file and follow the instructions. You can file the scanpst.exe file in the installation folder of Microsoft office.

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