Outlook – Fix Slow ‘Move to Folder’ on macOS Big Sur

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Current setup

  • macOS Big Sur 11.6.1
  • Microsoft Outlook for Mac 16.54 (for work, part of office 365 subscription) with New Outlook turned on
  • Mail account – an Office 365 account

The issue
In outlook, I select a message and hit Shift + Command + M to move the selected email(s) to a folder. The Move screen takes several (4-5) seconds to show. I then type a folder name into search and there is a 1-2 second lag. This just started to happen recently (after the 11.6.1 update?, possibly after an Outlook update?)

Everything else works as expected.

Is there a cache file somewhere I can clean-up/clear out that might help this?

Everything I see for support relates to Outlook being slow on Windows (which isn't any help)


It would seem 16.55 (21111400) fixed this issue

Best Answer

Microsoft pushed an updated for Outlook today (11/17/2021) that solved this issue for me.