I've noticed a disconcerting problem with my Spotlight metadata
importer on Leopard. Spotlight queries no longer return my own
documents although the content matches the query.
While this may seem like a simple mdimporter problem, my custom
mdimporter appears to be working fine. Running mdimport -L shows my
importer in the list, and the importer is correctly identifying my
files, their document types and my associated importer. In fact,
manually running mdimport at any of the debug levels on the files
correctly and as far as I can tell successfully extracts their
metadata. Terminal output matches what my mdimporter should produce.
Nevertheless, the documents still fail to show up during a Spotlight
query, even after manually running mdimport with a reported success.
In terms of regression, the same importer continues to work fine on
Tiger.
