Thanks for your suggestions Ronni. I began having a look about online to see if any others were having similar issues. Yes, not only me having problems with Mail's search facility. Rebuilding mailboxes and re-indexing are the most popular suggestions, both of which I've now done, and like some others, has not resolved the issue.
Lion has definitely slowed my MBP down, so maybe it's too underpowered now to effectively handle the full capabilities of Mail's search capability?? I'm guessing not though, because it's not that I'm getting slower results, I'm getting false results, ie. no returned hits when there are definitely matching hits. It's not every search though, which is consistent with the experience of others. I've now come across MS Word 2008 hanging when used with Lion. This is a known issue and Microsoft plans a fix. If anybody out there relies on Office 2008 and is planning on updating to Lion, might be worth thinking twice. Apparently updating to 2011 is an option, a little extreme to bypass a hanging problem though. For now I've downloaded OpenOffice until Microsoft come up with a fix. I thought one comment I came across on the web reflected one of my perceptions ... "Apple seems to have made some changes for change sake" or words to that effect. An example cited was Preview and the appearance of the navigation pane on the left instead of the right. Perhaps it's all part of the grand marketing plan ... "over 250 features!". It seems silly to update a new system and then revert back to classic features, why update in the first place, but I have checked the "Use classic layout" box in Mail > Preferences > Viewing. I find the layout in Lion's Mail worse. And I was pleased to discover the "scroll direction" could be changed back from the confusing Lion way. I like to keep up with the latest OS, even if a little buggy, but I'm glad I haven't been billed more than AUD 31.99 for all of my Macs! Cheers, Steven On 27/07/2011, at 12:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > 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 -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
