Hi group, had a major problem with outlook 2011 on my mac osx 10.9.5, had all the normal issues most people write about, rebuild database errors then no searching at all.

Tried:

1. indexing many times, including many terminal commands.

2. I had wiped the disc about 6 weeks ago and reinstalled every app one by one

3. uninstalled and reinstalled office and all updates

4. fixed permissions via command R disk utilities--- back to this later...

Nothing worked

I tried my backup drive and it worked I then brought all the data from outlook into the backup drive and it still worked. but had rebuild errors  on scrolling.

What I think started to work...

On the backup drive I rebuilt the database again and for the first time I was able to scroll without crashing

I then thought about permissions again and ran a command R disc utility because i was also having a thunderbolt firewire 800 adapter problem.

This time I saw my startup drive and ran the permissions and disk repair  on both the volume and the disc - not sure if this is the correct terminology but once I did that, and restarted and the computer started to index the drive again, my emails started to search and I could scroll through all without a crash.

I think I had some permission error on a few emails with attachments at least that's what i think and repairing them on the backup drive that had the correct permissions and then doing the repair permissions from the command R on both the partition and the drive reset everything to admn level. I'm not an IT guy but a freelance photographer so I'm not sure but I"ve spent a good week on this fix and I'm happy I did it. when I did the reinstall two nights ago i thought that and reinstall of the office would do it.

This permissions thing was big and another person thought there was something to permissions so I'm glad I went the extra mile...

give it a shot... davidfukumoto.com if you need photographer or video guy....