Rebuilding Microsoft Outlook 2016 For Mac Database

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For apple users Microsoft announced Outlook for Mac 2011. Sometime while working with Mac Outlook we unpredictably faces irregular conduct (Outlook restart suddenly, issue in opening of emails) etc. The root cause of this behavior is corrupt Mac Outlook database

Microsoft Outlook 2016 For Mac

The final method to resolve the 'No Results' issue when performing a search in Outlook 2011 or 2016 for Mac, is to fix the Spotlight permissions in Outlook 2011 database and then to rebuild the Spotlight database, by following the steps below. Note: The first time that you open Outlook after restoring a Time Machine backup, Outlook rebuilds its database to accommodate the restored items. If you have a very large database, rebuilding the database might take some time. Now, Outlook Mac 2016 user can easily repair and rebuilds the profile as Office 2016 automatically rebuilds the Outlook Mac profile if issues like Outlook data corruption occur. This is one of the main upgrades from Office 2011 for Mac, in which the user had to manually rebuild the Office database. Oct 31, 2016  SwivelyChair Oct 31, 2016 at 22:52 UTC In 2016 the database rebuild executes automatically if the database is detected as being damaged when Outlook launches. It'll try to do it silently if it can, otherwise you'll get a window that tells you it's rebuilding.

Before continuing to solution let’s meet Mac Outlook database file known as OLM file. These files are main repository of user Mac Outlook mailbox data. There are also chances these file got damaged and users need to rebuild mac Outlook database.

Users can simply resolve their problem by rebuilding their Mac Outlook database. Here are complete steps to rebuild mac Outlook database.

Here are steps to rebuild mac Outlook database identity

To rebuild Mac Outlook database firstly close all running application

Firstly open up the Microsoft database utility located at:
ApplicationsMicrosoft Office 2011Office

Click on option the Microsoft database utility

After clicking select option Main Identity

In the pop up menu Press button quit all

There are chances after clicking on the option there will be a message screen displaying message “There is a problem with office database. To use the database, you must rebuild it using database utility”

Click on button Rebuild

Note: Wait till process get complete and make sure you are not using any Office application during database rebuilding time.

Press button done labeled as “Done

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Now is time to delete database backup. Press delete button

Click and highlight the backup database and click the - button to delete.

There will be a conform notification for deletion of backup.

Restart Outlook.

Sometimes, rebuilding of Mac Outlook database would not resolve your problem and also there is risk in using manual method as it would assure for successful repairing of OLM file. In such circumstances or to evade risk of data loss Stellar Repair for OLM is best preference for you.

Outlook 2016 Database Repair

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