mail.app doesn't properly search

[klaxamazoo]

The find feature in mail.app does not work anymore. I used to be able to type in a search such as "mike" and I could find all the e-mails that had the word "mike" etc in it. Now I get back almost nothing no matter what I put into the search field.

Has anyone else had this problem?
Is there are solution.

Thanks

 

[ivi7]

Maybe you haven't selected the right mailbox try clicking on the inbox and when its highlighted search again. This may help.

 

[klaxamazoo]

I've tried that.

I've tried searching in specific folders, general folders, inbox, sent mail. All of them. Even when searching my own name I get almost nothing. It seems to be getting worse.

 

[ivi7]

Under mail, prefernces, general try checking all the options while searching and see if there is an improvement

 

[klaxamazoo]

Nope. No improvement.

 

[FJ218700]

The find feature in mail.app does not work anymore. I used to be able to type in a search such as "mike" and I could find all the e-mails that had the word "mike" etc in it. Now I get back almost nothing no matter what I put into the search field.

Has anyone else had this problem?
Is there are solution.

Thanks

same here, stopped around 10.4.9. I'm on G4's, what are you on?

 

[klaxamazoo]

I'm on a Macbook Pro. So it isn't a speed thing. Even my mom's iBook can do basic searches.

I think it might be my hard drive. I checked it with Disk Utility's "verify disk" and it came back with a lot of warnings. I'm going to back everything up and then take it to the apple store this weekend.

 

[AlexisV]

Download Onyx and reset your Spotlight index.

 

[klaxamazoo]

Download Onyx and reset your Spotlight index.

Thanks for the tip, but it still doesn't find things properly. If I type my name it and search "entire" message and all mailboxes or specific mailbox I get nothing when I should get a lot of things because most of the e-mails I receive start with "Hi Bob" etc.

I ran Onyx and got a disk error problem so I'm going to back everything up tonight and take it to the apple store before it fails on me.

 

[nsbio]

Same thing here - entire messages fail to be searched. Nice...