Search in Finder and Mail for files in 2011 not working

I do get search results just not for anything created after December 31st 2010. Nothing exists in the search for 2011. I have updated all software and nothing seems to work. My date and time are correct. I can have a file on the desktop or in my inbox and the system can not find it. I do search every day and it is getting labor intensive to do it all by hand. Any ideas?

I figured out a fix for my machine. I went into the system preferences, to the spotlight. Went to the privacy settings added my drive and closed to save the settings then reopened it and I removed it from Privacy. This caused it to re-indexed all my files (it took over an hour) but I even created new files and was able to find them in spotlight and in my email.

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