Spotlight mdimporter confusion
Spotlight mdimporter confusion
- Subject: Spotlight mdimporter confusion
- From: Ali Lalani <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 17:47:44 -0400
Hey all,
I have a strange issue with spotlight recognizing and using my
mdimporter.
I think it has to do with the fact that at any given time i might
have more than one mdimporter on my drive at a time, and one of them
is not necessarily in a standard mdimporter place(i.e. Library/
Spotlight/).
The problem is, as i'm developing and building my project the
importer gets built as well, into my /Users/Shared/ directory, since
that is what i have in my xcode settings. For doing a build install i
have it go into the right place, so if i'm testing a production build
i'll also have the mdimporter in /Applications/[My App Wrapper]/
Contents/Library/Spotlight
What seems to happen is when i try mdimport -L, my importer will come
up in the list, but sometimes it's the one in /Users/Shared(i even
tried making /Users/Shared/ a private folder in the spotlight prefs,
but to no avail). That's still fine, and i wouldn't care either way
except that for some reason while it seems it is a registered
importer, it doesn't actually index my files when i make a change.
After that i go and delete that /Users/Shared/ mdimporter and try
mdimport -L again and voila, the correct one in the app wrapper is
recognized, but spotlight is *still* thrown for a loop because it
will only index my files if i manually go and mdimport them from the
command line. Changes to the files don't seem to get registered. Even
logging out/rebooting doesn't seem to help.
At some point after all this it did start working again, i'm not sure
exactly what i did, but i did re-build the entire spotlight index on
the drive so that might have been it. Still, it ends up breaking
again after more development since that same situation crops up again.
Has anyone run across this before? Is there a workaround perhaps, or
a suggested way of integrating this into the development environment?
Any help would be appreciated, because this is driving me nuts! Thanks,
Ali
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