anyone having issues typing in something in search and not finding the emails with that search? Instead you get (Found 1400 matches for search) but the emails associated with that search don't show up like it used to. This is so frustrating...
I chat with Apple and the problem solved.
This is what happened to my mail.
I have the exact same problem. I type something in, It tells me the 408 found with a status of "Searching..." but the window never shows the results. Hard to work like this...lol. I tried this suggestion (see below) from other posts but no luck. I called Apple Support and they started taking me down the path of creating a new user on my machine but I'm not ready to go down that path.
1) Launch the Terminal.app (Just copy/paste the string starting with sudo.... and press return)
2) Stop Spotlight and remove the indexing: # sudo mdutil -i off -E / <return>
3) Enable it again by typing: # sudo mdutil -i on / <return>
this process finally works.. but only for a little while then I have to do safe mode again, do the steps above restart and it works.. then later in the day, I can't search again, so I have to repeat this process... man this is a joke.. I should have never updated.. I'm glad I haven't upgraded my other mac's, I'd be screwed.. hope there's a fix soon
happened samething to me, not just mail, samething with notes app too.
If Mail app could not search , try open the note, samething you couldnt search in notes app as well
I have to restart and a while it stop working again.
I did rebuild and reset everything but samething..
This is crazy...very inconvenient if you have thousands email to search and look up for daily task and work..
any solution?
I tried this but after I hit return I get a password Icon and I can't seem to type anything after that..
That is because of how the 'sudo' command works. It wants your password and it looks like you are not typing but you really are entering your password.
ok I was able to do the code, but I opened mail and nothing changed.. still can't search emails.
After I restarted search (above procedure) I rebooted my machine and when it booted back up Mail started to index correctly. Took a few hours.
did both of the suggested and it worked,, then 20 min later.. not working again...
I'll try and go to safe mode again and try one more time.. this is very frustrating..
When is the next update coming out.. having to restart my laptop 10 times a day to search for stuff in emails is ridiculous..
Mine is still working fro the day of my remark above (10/16/2019)
I'm having the same issue as you. The fix is temporary and it stops searching after a bit and would need to repeat the process. Also having search issues in notes app.
OS Catalina - Mail Search Not Working
