This is a change from Office 2011 for Mac, in which you had to manually rebuild the Office database if there was a problem. The ability to manually repair. Create, rename, or delete an identity. Open the Microsoft Database Utility. The default location is in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/. Tip: You can also open the Database Utility if you close Outlook, hold down the OPTION key, and then click the Outlook icon in the Dock. Do one of the following.
Has anyone come up with a manual way to do a database rebuild for Office 2016 for Mac? One of the most common things I do for my Office 2011 users is rebuild their identity. While Outlook 2016 has been pretty nice so far, I ran into an issue with a user today that would have qualified for a DB rebuild. But Outlook 2016 has removed this feature, claiming it does all this 'automatically' and there should never be a need for rebuilding manually. Well I ended up deleting the profile and re-adding it, which did solve the problem. Any way for me to manually rebuild the identity? Or rename the equivalent of the Mac '.ost' file to force a re-sync/rebuild?
This is an old post, but we just ran in to this issue. We had a user whose profile was corrupted and had archived mail locally on their computer. Creating a new profile would not solve his issue. And for whatever reason Outlook would not detect there was an issue and offer to rebuild the profile. I ended up going to ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles/Main Profile/Data and deleting the Outlook.sqllite file. This forced Outlook to detect an issue and do an auto rebuild. Not exactly an elegant solution, but all of his archived mail was brought over with the rebuild.
If anyone goes this route, make sure you backup the Main Profile folder, just in case. Skype for mac running slow download. Michaelhof wrote: This is an old post, but we just ran in to this issue. We had a user whose profile was corrupted and had archived mail locally on their computer. Creating a new profile would not solve his issue.
And for whatever reason Outlook would not detect there was an issue and offer to rebuild the profile. I ended up going to ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles/Main Profile/Data and deleting the Outlook.sqllite file. This forced Outlook to detect an issue and do an auto rebuild. Not exactly an elegant solution, but all of his archived mail was brought over with the rebuild. If anyone goes this route, make sure you backup the Main Profile folder, just in case. This worked for me!
After restoring from Time Machine, all the folders I had archived locally in 'On My Computer' vanished. The emails within the missing folders could still be found using the search function within Outlook, but it was irritating not being able to navigate to specific folders. After following these instructions, the missing folders reappeared as sub-folders in the Inbox folder within On My Computer. You rock, michaelhof!
Minor correction - the file I deleted is named 'Outlook.sqlite' not 'Outlook.sqllite'.
Method 1: Press and hold Option key when launching Outlook to rebuild the identity. Method 2: Press and hold Alt key (windows) and click the Outlook icon on on the Dock (If the icon not appears on dock, Go to /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011 folder and drag the outlook file to Dock). Microsoft database utility will appear.