After upgrade to Big Sur I am experiencing an incredible slow search in mail program. After entering a phrase in the search box I can wait up to a minute or two to get the search results reflected. Is there any patch or fix for that?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.0
It's not fixed.
Look at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252035294?page=15
It seems to happen more to Macs with multiple users, and is 100% reproducible: when one user logs off the other users lose mail search.
Force killing the process 'corespotlightd' will restore the search capabilities.
I have a 3 month old MacBook air I now won't upgrade because Big Sur has crippled the Spotlight search function on the mac I did upgrade - a 2 year old mac mini.
Would someone know how a problem this inconvenient (I depend on Spotlight) gets communicated to Apple and then fixed? And if a fix is unlikely, I'd be grateful for tips on how to return my mac mini to Catalina. For me this Spotlight problem outweighs all advantages that Big Sur offers.
I also have this problem ... it is a real problem since this is my working computer. Most of my email are local so this is not a webdav problem. I tried EVERYTHING from delete index to restart mail in safe mode and restart mac ... this is very frustrating.
I have tried deleting all accounts except iCloud, then deleting old emails in the iCloud. I have been waiting since the upgrade to Big Sur, whichnis pretty long time already - nothing works. I am considering deleting my mail store completely and rebuilding everything from scratch
I did the install of Big Sur about a month ago. My computer is open 24/7 so I would imagine the any re-indexing should be done now .... weird enough it looks like the first search I do in the morning takes FOREVER, but then is a bit more responsive until late afternoon.
Apple should probably have a look at what is going on here ... that install broke what didn't need fixing in the first place.
When an email is read and done with I drag it to an "on my computer" folder on my mac. So my archive emails are all local, the problem is not because the search happens on a remote server.
It is so slow, I can't even explain how frustrating this is ... it can take up to 2 minutes before search complete
Brody, you are trying to advocate an obvious bug. Both IMAP and other methods are just the ways yo handle sync with the server mailboxes. I have a local copy of all the emails. It always worked perfectly, the problem started clearly with the upgrade to Big Sur. I have experimentally deleted all other account and just left iCloud - to see if that is a compatibility problem. And even then it won’t work. I have completely stopped using Apple Mail and need to keep 6 open tabs in a browser for all the email accounts I need. Apple must fix it ASAP, using Mac without proper email is a nightmare.
Brody, stop assuming we are all unqualified users here. I am a developer. I have done everything I could, to exclude various factors. Yes, I have tried searching without internet connection and my computer is 24/7 on so indexing must have been completed like zillion times since the upgrade to Big Sur. I have also rebooted and checked the power cord 😂😂😂
Yes, @_y3k_ is right. We are not all unqualified users. I am also a developer and confirm that tried all possible ways to have a better response time in the search. It is quite non-sense for me what was said about IMAP. I would expect a local in an IMAP account and search in the local copy.
Same here, after upgrade to Big Sur the search of Apple Mail is too slow. It would be nice to have Apple comments about this problem.
And by the way, it has become totally unusable lately. I just can’t search my mail anymore, I have to go to the browser and open web mailboxes if I need to find something.
so? anyone would produce anything helpful, without jumping to conclusions (c)?
But IMAP keeps a local copy of all messages in all mailboxes on the server, so it shouldn't have to go anywhere but the local mail store to find things. Do I have that correct?
Not always. Only if you ask it to.
Are you thinking of PoP? Where is the setting to turn this on and off in Apple Mail?
Oh no. It was ok couple of hours after the upgrade, then it's died again. :(
big sur mail search impossible slow
