OS X V10.7 Lion :: Mail Search Not Working?
Jun 6, 2012I am no longer able to use Search in Mail. When I type anything in, I get zero results. I am almost certain it worked previously. Am I missing a setting somewhere?
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Search Not Working Properly In Mail?
Apr 19, 2012The search feature in Lion/Mail will not find names or words in the "Subject" category even when I know they exists. I use mail for my business and often need to find old emails from clients..... the new search feature in Lion does not work. How can Apple release a product with such a obvious flaw?  Â
Other problems with mail..... • When I open mail no new mail will appear in my "in box" until I select another mail box like "trash" or "Sent".... then the new mail will appear. • The "Hide Mail" feature is greyed out when mail is open.... there's no way to hide mail. • The scroll down bar on the right side of the window is hidden until you drag the edge of the frame over to reveal it. • Windows are locked and can't be moved. I've been using Apple products from the earliest days in the 1980's and quite frankly have been shocked at some of the things Apple is screwing up these days. From the Final Cut Pro conversion to Final Cut X disaster that has sent thousands of professional editors running to other products, to these seemingly small but irritating flaws with the new software being released before these problems have been addressed. A search feature that does not work?Â
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Search Engine In Mail Has Stopped Working?
May 22, 2012The search engine in mail has stopped working altogether. When I type something into the search field nothing happens.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Search Entire Message Not Working In Mail, But Spotlight Works
Apr 3, 2012I am having a problem where my mail App is not searching the entire body of the message any more. I installed Lion soon after it was released, and I believe that it has been working up until recently.Â
If I do a search, it won't search the message body, and gives me no option to search for "Message contains" (just "People" and "Subjects"). If search for subject "foo" and then click on the "Subject" pull down menu, it shows "Subject" and "Entire Message", but "Entire Message" is greyed out.Â
I've done a lot of web searching and most people with similar problems had problems with Spotlight. If I do a Spotlight search, it does find all of the mail messages correctly. Its just the Mail app that won't let me search.Â
I haven't tried re-indexing spotlight yet because spotlight seems to be working okay. Note that all of my mail accounts are "POP" accounts with the mail stored locally on my machine.Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Software :: Search Entire Message Not Working In Mail?
Jun 15, 2010I'm using a PowerPC G5 dual 2GHz with OS X V10.5.8 with all updates installed that have been released as of this date. I've looked at a number of other topics here and elsewhere and have tried a number of ways to get this to work:
I tried using Onyx and one or two other system tools that offer the ability to rebuild the Spotlight indexes. (I've made sure that Spotlight is enabled on the volume where my mail folders live, of course.)
I've also tried that from a Terminal window:
<p> <code>$ sudo mdutil -E</code>.
I tried the following command to force the mail message files to be reimported: <p><code>$ mdimport -r /System/Library/Spotlight/Mail.mdimporter</code>
...all to no effect. And repairing permissions and then repeating any of the above doesn't help.
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Unable To Search Mail From Within Mail Or Spotlight
May 17, 2012Do realized there have been multiple threads on this topic. Just checking to see if a soilution has been found.
Note: Mail and Spotlight search worked perfectly in Snow Leopard before upgrade.
Upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion. Mail search and indexing no longer working. Unable to search Mail from finder (Spotlight) or within Mail. Spotlight shows all other search ares with the exception of "Messages". [code]...
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Spotlight Search Not Working?
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May 25, 2012Is there a way to search my mail messages for a specific word or phrase?Â
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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Mac Mail Rules Not Working
Jun 27, 2012Rules in Mac Mail are working terribly randomly - create a rule to color messages from domain = x, didn't work; then tried a rule to color messages to = one of my 3 email addresses ... that worked on about 80% of the messages to that email address (***? no discernable pattern!) after exiting and re-launching mail ... Finally realizing this thing just doesn't work I deleted all the rules ... several exits/re-launches I now still have about 80% of my messages to one email address I use colored, with no discernable pattern. There are no rules now.Â
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Apple Mail No Longer Working
May 19, 2012My email has been working just fine until a couple of months ago. I gave up however I do miss receiving email on my MacBook Pro. I'm receiving my emails using my iPhone and if I log in to yahoo! however it stopped working with Apple Mail. I have not changed any of the settings so I am puzzled why it is no longer working. For the last couple of months I've been trying to figure out why but I've had no luck. Â
My email account is an [URL] account. Also my other friend is having the same issue with his [URL] account.Â
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iMac 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 4GB of Memorry, 1TB
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Mar 27, 2012We have just upgraded to Lion in order to move to iCloud. The mail database upgrade is not going anywhere after 2 hours of waiting.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 13, 2012I've noticed some more people have problems with their Wifi connection after upgrading, but since I'm experiencing some other difficulties as well, I've placed this in a new discussion."About this Mac" says that my iMac is running 10.7.4. I did however see a failure notice when I returned to my Mac that was doing the upgrade. Apparently something went wrong. So after restarting Mac these things happened:
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2. Mail won't start.
3. iCal won't start.
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iMac, MacBook, MacMini,, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Airport Extreme, Time Capsule, Airport Express
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Apr 18, 2012I have spotlight configured to not index the folder ~/Development, because it contains a lot of jars and I couldn't figure out how to turn off indexing of jars.Â
1) I open finder to ~/Development/Foobar, which is a folder containing other folders containing files ending in ".png".
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Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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