Rebuild Outlook 2016 For Mac
So for the past few days I have been unable to search in Outlook 2016, version has been updated to latest and still unable to search, just shows no results. Id bit of searching around and could not really find an answer until this morning. A few people are mentioning this on other sites and didn't really see any solutions here so I thought I would help out. Have tried dropping the group containers into spotlight privacy and then remove it in the hope it would re-index. Had even tried re-indexing the entire computer. None of these worked. Found this website: Just be aware though, when I went through finder to navigate into the outlook.app/contents.
May 04, 2017 Yesterday When I was using my Outlook 2016 for Mac. It suddenly crashed along reported message i.e. There is a problem with Office database and to use you must rebuild. The first step in this method is to export the data from Outlook 2016 on the Mac in question. An archive file in Outlook 2016 for Mac is a.olm file that you can save to any location on your Mac or on a different machine for safekeeping. When changes occur within the main Global Address Book (GAL) on the Office 365, computers running Outlook 2010 and 2013/2016 may not automatically receive the updates. If this is happening, then you may notice missing, non-existent and/or incorrect entries.
Finder locked up, so had to enter file path through terminal not just drag and drop into a terminal window Hope it helps:). 
Ok, the only thing that worked for me was a complete user account rebuild. All the above options did not work. Unfortunately, I could not replicate the problem and have not been able to since.
Obviously, it was a problem somewhere in this users specific account. I couldn't tell you where. I can say that this was a new user which had only been using Outlook for 2 weeks before he noticed.
Other computers that were imaged and setup did NOT have this issue. Interestingly enough, I have had other friends who use Casper tell me that spotlight search was not working SPORADICALLY on their images. I have ran across this randomly as well. I'm not sure if it's related, but it could be.
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The user account re-creation fixing this makes this confusing, though. Is there a user specific spotlight file that configures searching in the user account? This is going to be annoying but I'd like to know if anyone has this problem on their machines currently. This problem has sporadically cropped up in my environment still. I do not know what is causing it but I do have a solution that has worked 100% of the time when it does happen.