Monterey upgrade to 12.1 breaks outlook and mdfind search

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Monterey upgrade to 12.1 breaks outlook and mdfind search

Just after upgrading to Monterey 12.1 MS Outlook search stop working... meaning it doesn't matter what you search you'll get nothing!.

None of the "usual" spotlight issues workarounds fixes the problem. I go further and try Spotlight (⌘+Spacebar) and try to find any app in my applications folder, spotlight finds nothing. Then I go even farther and try "mdfind" in terminal... lets say : "mdfind -onlyin /Users/user-name/Downloads -name pdf" and guess what... it returns NOTHING

Does anyone @ apple support has any clue when that will be fixed?

Regards

Martin

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.4

Posted on Dec 28, 2021 7:10 AM

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Barney-15E

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Dec 28, 2021 9:02 AM in response to MartinNavarro

Does anyone @ apple support has any clue when that will be fixed?

You'd have to ask Apple Support that question. We have no idea what their plans my be.

I don't use Outlook, but it sounds like you have no Spotlight capability at all. I don't have any problems with Spotlight.

Any chance you are using Goolag Drive? People have had problems searching anything stored on that since it now stores everything in the cloud and not locally. That shouldn't apply to finding Applications, though.

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Barney-15E

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Dec 28, 2021 12:30 PM in response to MartinNavarro

If the files are stored only in the cloud on either, Spotlight cannot search them because the data it needs to index is not available. If it is not finding files that are stored locally (mirrored), then there is something causing problems with the Spotlight indexing.

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Answer 3

Dec 28, 2021 4:59 PM in response to Barney-15E

Spotlight (and mdfind) can find anything you got locally or in cloud ever since you have the connector to those cloud systems. Thing is MacOS upgrade to 12.1 completely has somehow broken search capabilities. Its not a "something" causing a problem... is the upgrade causing that mess

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Answer 4

Dec 28, 2021 11:51 AM in response to Barney-15E

I don't use Google cloud services, instead I do use BOX and iCloud... spotlight works partially in both (mdfind results are erratical)

regards

Martin

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Monterey upgrade to 12.1 breaks outlook and mdfind search

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