Re-Index Hanging - "Indexing messages" is stuck
I had had issues with gloda (search) for a long while. I have tried deleting the sqlite file to force a reindex as per the guidance. I am watching Activity Monitor in TB after reopening, to monitor the reindex process. But it hangs every time. it goes through sent items and seems to get stuck at one point every time. See image below, it's been sat like that for an hour or more now. Any ideas? thanks (Image uploader doesn't seem to be working on this board, so here's the screenshot: https://ibb.co/8MjfKRW)
Modified by Wayne Mery
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Check Tools > Activity Manager to see which folder it is stuck on. From there see if you can determine which message (possibly malformed) it is stuck on.
Ha, it's no longer stuck! Can I assume it worked its way through, or would it skip if there was a malformed/corrupt message?
Interestingly, global search was constantly playing up for me, failing to find any emails in Local Folders. I wonder if this was because it was stuck indexing, so hadn't indexed those folders yet. The reason this could have been going on for months (global search failing to find stuff) COULD be because I have been fairly frequently deleting the global sqlite file to force a reindex! If that was taking weeks to complete due to some nasty byte of data somewhere, maybe that explains why global search wasn't working for me. I say that because i have noticed in the past few days Global Search has suddenly started working properly, finding emails in Local Folders, which it frequently was not doing in the past. The plot thickens, or maybe thins!
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