Search Problems with Outlook 2007

[Michael B.]

I have been using Outlook 2007 for the last 2 months with no problems except
that lately my "search" is not working correctly.
I have emails going back to 1999 in the Inbox, and for some reason, when I
try to search my old messages (using email address, subject or text within
the message), Outlook never finds anything, eventhough I can find them
MANUALLY if I scroll up and down.

With about 6,000 messages in my Inbox, this is horrible and time-wasting.
I have tried changin the search options (this is the little Search Inbox)
but to no avail! How can this be fixed that inside this box it finds/flags
any of my choices. I have also tried to use "Add Criteria", but it's not
helpful.

I never had such a problem with Outlook 2000, 2003 or XP.

Please advise!

 

[team]

I have the wame problem with Outlook 2007 and Vista Ultimate.
Previously, I was able to search properly, but now it is consistently
unable to find anything.
I have restarted Outlook, restarted Vista, and rebuilt the index
without success.
I have installed the recommended updates and run the Office
Diagnostics.
Suggestions are appreciated.

 

[Michael B.]

Hi,

I am glad to hear that I am not the only one.

It's getting worse and worse, as it seems like it will only back-search for
the last 30 days now. And I have emails back from 7 years that I need to
find/reffer to!

Anyone, any MVP's know about this?

 

[Michael B.]

I think that I did find a solution... so far, its working, but it took a
while to re-index:

"For solving the problem, go to the Start menu, Programs, Microsoft Office,
Microsoft Office Tools, and then select Microsoft Office Diagnostics.
This will run for a while and re-index all your folders in Outlook,
successfully solving the problem. Note that rebuilding the index in Vista's
control panel does not fix the problem, but is a good place to start."

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-72723-Outlook-2007-search-in-Vista-no-results.html

I ran both of them, and although the Microsoft Office Diagnostics reported
NO PROBLEMS, suddenly, the search is finding all of my results in Outlook
2007.