Search function in apple mail does no longer werk since update Ventura, even after most recent version update

It worked, thanks Jskywalker ! So simple when you know how

This fixed my mail search issue in less than 3 minutes! Thanks JSkywalker

Is there now a good fix from mac for the sudden loss of search function--a catastrphic loss!!! I still use Big Sur as so0 many problems with later OS

Hi, You posted this a while ago. Is it still working for you? I do not seem to have a 'maildata' or 'envelope' file/folder. Can you post the complete path?

it would be helpful if we could see step 4

Thank you! That worked for me!

That worked. Thanks

I'll be ******, that actually worked!

Didn't work for me. Tried multiple times.

Nothing worked for me. I now work from an older Mac that I do not update (even if in turn that affects other apps). How can this issue be elevated to *URGENT* with the Apple programmers?

seonline

Thanks very much for this response. It worked perfectly. The spacing is important.. trust me, I proved that!!

thanks again

I just tried this several times and it works:

When the Mail Search Box isn’t working

Click on the delete symbol (dark circle with x) to highlight a rounded blue square.

Hit Command + Delete which deletes what was in the box. 

Now it should show just the delete symbol without the blue highlighted rounded square. 

Double click the delete symbol.

I have been unable to search my iMessages or Mail on my MacBook Air for over a year now... I tried every single suggestion made here and from other places - Nothing fixes it. I have done every update on the OS as well. As a result, I have had to download Outlook for searching email and use my iPhone when searching Messages. It is very cumbersome and inefficient. I use my MacBook Air for the work I do and, like many, I am angry, frustrated and disappointed that Apple hasn't addressed this issue, nor do they seem to acknowledge it... Instead, we get to go to forums and various websites suggested by searches to just get the same repetitive suggestions to fix it, as if we don't know how to select "mail" and "messages", uninstall an eMail Account, then reinstall, restart our computers... I have tried it all and still just get the message in mail at least when attempting a search, "indexing" followed by nothing, no matter how long I wait... Sick of this. "APPLE, THIS IS NOT USER ERROR.... FIX IT ALREADY!!!!