Limited Indexing on new Macbook Air 13

[DonaldE]

I bought a new Macbook Air and did a direct copy over from my Macbook Pro 13 (2018). Everything seems to run except indexing. My Outlook for Mac will not find any emails in the search option. When searching for a file from Finder, it will only find files if I select 'This Mac', where it searches the entire disk. I have tried all the options of profile names, special characters, etc. I have added a folder to the 'exclude list' and then removed it. Still no indexing. I tried reinstalling Outlook - still nothing.
Wondering if I need to rebuild the whole laptop to factory and reinstall solely from Time Machine. Any idea?

 

[Isamilis]

Give it some time. Usually it took few hours until 1-2 days to finish indexing (subject to number of files, file size and system workload).

 

[DonaldE]

Give it some time. Usually it took few hours until 1-2 days to finish indexing (subject to number of files, file size and system workload).

Thanks. Unfortunately, I've had it for a couple weeks now.

 

[jdb8167]

I bought a new Macbook Air and did a direct copy over from my Macbook Pro 13 (2018). Everything seems to run except indexing. My Outlook for Mac will not find any emails in the search option. When searching for a file from Finder, it will only find files if I select 'This Mac', where it searches the entire disk. I have tried all the options of profile names, special characters, etc. I have added a folder to the 'exclude list' and then removed it. Still no indexing. I tried reinstalling Outlook - still nothing.
Wondering if I need to rebuild the whole laptop to factory and reinstall solely from Time Machine. Any idea?

You can force it to re-index the whole drive by placing that drive in the privacy exclude list and later removing it.

 

[DonaldE]

You can force it to re-index the whole drive by placing that drive in the privacy exclude list and later removing it.

yes, did that too in Siri & Spotlight/Spotlight Privacy (assuming that is the area you mean) and still nothing. Tried it a couple of times with different folders just to be sure.

 

[jdb8167]

yes, did that too in Siri & Spotlight/Spotlight Privacy (assuming that is the area you mean) and still nothing. Tried it a couple of times with different folders just to be sure.

Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, place the whole drive by selecting it at the top-level into the privacy area not just folders. Other than that I don’t have anything else to help as that has always worked for me.

 

[DonaldE]

Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, place the whole drive by selecting it at the top-level into the privacy area not just folders. Other than that I don’t have anything else to help as that has always worked for me.

I wouldn't allow me to move the whole drive - it had a small 'x' by it when I tried. I just went to my 'MacBook Air' base where it displays all the internal and external drives and then it let me do it. Thanks for this and here's hoping!!

 

[DonaldE]

I wouldn't allow me to move the whole drive - it had a small 'x' by it when I tried. I just went to my 'MacBook Air' base where it displays all the internal and external drives and then it let me do it. Thanks for this and here's hoping!!

Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, place the whole drive by selecting it at the top-level into the privacy area not just folders. Other than that I don’t have anything else to help as that has always worked for me.

That seems to have done the trick! Thanks!