Maik- Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 When I search a mailbox in Mail, searching "Entire Message" never gives any results. Is not greyed out, it tries to search but doesn't find anything. But: when I search everywhere instead of in a mailbox, or if I use the blue spotlight search, it finds all messages. Subject, to & from search works. This worked before. Not being able to search my mailboxes is terrible. There's lots of discussion on this but I can't find a solution. So far i tried: - repair permissions - rebuild LaunchServices and mailboxes with onyx - delete the envelope file and let mail reindex everything - mdimport ~/Library/Mail - rebuil mailboxes from within mail - restarts What else is there to try? I could add a long rant how much spotlight sucks and how sad it is Apple replaced a simple and reliable search function with a buggy monstrocity that fails to complete the most simple tasks but I'm gonna spare you that. Edit: I'm using 10.5.4. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141682-search-not-working-in-mailapp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissacara Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Yes, I just discovered this bug myself, which is why I too am searching for an answer... Exactly the same issue. Searching in Entire Message in mail.app doesn't return results. I am on 10.5.5 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141682-search-not-working-in-mailapp/#findComment-1008246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maik- Posted December 21, 2008 Author Share Posted December 21, 2008 argggg... I was hoping the 10.5.5 update would cure this, haven't updated yet but i've seen mail and the spotlight mail importer are included in the installer, but the problem is still there obviously. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141682-search-not-working-in-mailapp/#findComment-1008307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Checked and I have the same problem, fixed it with: From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences. Click Spotlight. Click the Privacy tab. Add (+) a folder or even an entire volume (your hard drive) to the list. Remove (-) the item or volume you just added. WAIT FOR A FEW MINUTES Found at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2409?viewlocale=en_US Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141682-search-not-working-in-mailapp/#findComment-1008315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maik- Posted December 21, 2008 Author Share Posted December 21, 2008 Sadly this didn't work for me. Again, I can search the content of all messages, but searching the content in one (any) mailbox gives no results. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141682-search-not-working-in-mailapp/#findComment-1008656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ResEdit Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 Try rebuilding the launchservices database. It worked for me. In terminal run this line: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141682-search-not-working-in-mailapp/#findComment-1180410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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