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I am running Outlook 2016 on Yosemite. I noticed that the Spotlight indexed Outlook files, such as mail and events, are not showing in the Spotlight preview. Please see screenshot. Anyone seen this as well, or know how to possibly fix this? Thanks in advance…
You can use Bare Bones’s TextWrangler (from the makers of BBEdit). It has a Multi-File Search function that is easy to use and pretty useful.
Nice: TextWrangler is free.
I found (what seems to be) a good solution after messing around and observing another AFP share that is working correctly. Turns out that the working folder has ACLs to allow spotlight indexing:
$ ls -led /Shared\ Items/Public/
drwxrwxr-x+ 19 root admin 646 May 6 12:47 /Shared Items/Public/
0: user:_spotlight inherited allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit
New directories created inside a directory with this ACL will also inherit it. Files created inside the directory inherit a similar ACL: user:_spotlight inherited allow read,execute. As it turns out, applying the allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit ACL to a regular file results in the file getting the simplified ACL (allow read,execute). So my solution was to add the inherit ACL recursively to the shared directory:
$ chmod -R +a 'user:_spotlight allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit' /Shared
This solution worked perfectly. Now all my share content shows up in spotlight searches regardless of who owns them.
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I was able to solve a similar problem by updating the timestamp on all my Outlook mail files. After that Spotlight properly indexed them.
I used a terminal window, went to the Outlook messages folder using the following command:
and then used find command to touch the files.