When I did that I saw that the importer from the old installation of Outlook was still installed because it was still in the trash can. usr/bin/mdimport –L to list all installed importers. Outlook provides a custom importer to Spotlight to index email. After spotlight reported the indexing was complete (via the Spotlight dropdown in the upper right) the email was all indexedĪs per the information and details provided by you, to get Outlook email indexed by spotlight after reinstalling Office 2011, please follow these steps:.

Users/jim/Documents/Microsoft User Data folder to the Privacy tab of Spotlight System Settings, and then removing it again. Once I emptied the trash, I had to force Spotlight to reindex the email folder by adding the Wish there was a way to selectively empty the trash without deleting everything. When I tried to manually importĪn email using the command usr/bin/mdimport -d2 //x00_138.olk14Message I saw that it was failing to load the importer from the trash.Įmptying the trash fixed the issue. You can use the command /usr/bin/mdimport -L to list all installed importers. '/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook.mdimporter',

Finally found the solution to this problem.

Reinstall office 2011