On 26/07/2011, at 12:55 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: > > I'm finding the search facility for the Lion version of Mail very unreliable, > as in not returning matching messages when it should be. I do have a fairly > large accumulation of messages these days, but wasn't a problem with Snow > Leopard. > > I'm wondering if others have found this, or is it a function of me running > 10.7 on a MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (must be 4 to 5 years old by > now), which is now considerably more sluggish after moving from Snow Leopard > to Lion.
Hi Steven, Have you tried ‘rebuilding' each Mailbox? Click on each Mailbox, Go to Mailbox > Rebuild. Wait until each Mailbox has rebuilt. Quit Mail Open Mail and try searching. If you are still not happy with your search results try: 1. Enable Indexing Open Terminal, and type the following: sudo mdutil -i on / If it asks for your password, type it in and hit return. Re-open mail. If this didn't fix anything, then you will need to re-index: 2. Re-indexing HD Go to System Preferences, Spotlight, click on the Privacy tab, click on the + to add the entire Macintosh HD to the list of "Prevent spotlight from searching these locations" and then remove the Macintosh HD by clicking the - button. Once you've done this is will automatically start re-indexing in spotlight. This can take a long time. When it has completed, Open mail and it should be working properly again. Please let us know how you get on. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
