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K1a2b3c4 Author

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Search in Apple Mail not working

all of a sudden, or maybe as a result of an upgrade, my apple mail won't search at all. what happened? how do I fix it?

iMac, OS X 10.11

Posted on Oct 29, 2019 1:12 PM

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Old Toad

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Posted on Oct 29, 2019 1:32 PM

Boot into Safe Mode (Use Safe Mode to isoloate issues with your Mac) and try from there. Reboot normally and test again.

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.

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