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Re: Spotlight not indexing files
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Re: Spotlight not indexing files


  • Subject: Re: Spotlight not indexing files
  • From: Shoaib Hannani <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:57:19 -0400

Running mdimport with -d4 or -d3 or -d2 doesn't report any errors. I only have one copy of importer on my machine which is part of the application bundle.

Strangely enough, if I do a reboot, and then save files through my application, Spotlight finds them.

Since I'm in development mode, I have to keep rebooting each time I recompile my code... as it stops working on each new compile.

I'm sure others have come across this issue.

On May 16, 2005, at 1:27 AM, Aurélien Hugelé wrote:

run mdimport with the -d4 option to see what's happening, the reasons the import does not work are *very* numerous (several importer with the same UTIs is the biggest bug in Spotlight IMO, but there are many other)

read the output of mdimport carefully sometimes small error are reported !

On 16 mai 05, at 02:01, Shoaib Hannani wrote:


I've written a Spotlight plugin for my application but none of my application files get indexed by Spotlight.

I have to MANUALLY run mdimport on my application files before Spotlight can see them. The fact that mdimport does the trick tells me that my plugin is working.

But I don't understand why I have run mdimport manually to get it to work.

Metadata files created by my application are written to ~/Library/ Caches/Metadata/myApp directory.

There must be something I'm not doing right. Any ideas?





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