Because I find that Outlook's internal search is sometimes unreliable, I occasionally use the Mac's spotlight search to find a particular mail message. This allows me to locate the message, which I can open, but I cannot find a way to determine the folder in which the message is stored. (I think my question is different from "Outlook for Mac 2011: How to find the folder where a message is stored?" because the user there was using Outlook's internal search and getting a list of emails in an Outlook table of messages. My problem is that my external search only goes into Outlook once I have opened the single message I am looking for, and so there is no table listing all messages found according to the search criteria, with columns that allow a "folder" column to be displayed)
Found mail message in Outlook for Mac, but want to find the source folder
emailms office
Related Solutions
In Outlook Preferences, select the Reading pane, then select option under Mark Mail as Read that says "Only when opened in separate window".
That will make sure you actually read the message.
Changing the "Arrange By" value from "Date received" to "Date Sent" on the top of the mail list solved this issue for me.
Related Question
- Outlook for Mac 2011: How to find the folder where a message is stored
- Spotlight doesn’t find the contents of at least one file
- AppleScript to find lost Outlook mail and archive them
- MacOS – outlook: apply rule to past messages
- Outlook for Mac 2016, Gmail accounts and Smart Folder / Search showing message more than once
- Is there something like macros in Outlook 2016 on Mac
- How to find folder in MacOS Mail
Best Answer
The internal search for Outlook:Mac 2011 is Spotlight search.
When you search from Spotlight outside of Outlook:Mac, and you select a result, that email is opened in a new window. The title of that window is "subject - folder". This isn't perfect, since it only tells you the name of the parent folder. If you have a deep folder structure, or if you reuse folder names, you'll have to figure out where that particular folder lives.