Re: Blacklisted Spotlight importer plugin
Re: Blacklisted Spotlight importer plugin
- Subject: Re: Blacklisted Spotlight importer plugin
- From: Roland King <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:29:50 +0800
> On 26 Feb 2015, at 21:34, Michael Domino <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> If you do a web search for “blacklisted Spotlight importer plugin”, you’ll get many results that find this line in logs that have been posted on the web:
>
> 2/26/15 8:13:13.987 AM mds[33]: (ImportServer.Normal:1700) Ignoring blacklisted Spotlight importer plugin:/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/SourceCode.mdimporter uuid:548A3091-3C5D-498A-A329-B532A6C896BB version:1801
>
> I have the very same line in my own system.log.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Does SourceCode.mdimporter come from Apple? I don’t recall installing it on my machine.
It’s inside /Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/… so yes it’s most probably part of Xcode ..
… but a very old version. You still have things in /Developer? Xcode.app moved from /Developer to /Applications around err .. a long time ago. I don’t even have a TimeMachine backup goes back that far.
> 2. Should I delete it from my machine? Is it malicious?
Since it’s being ignored then it’s probably not dangerous even if it were malicious and it’s probably not malicious Do you need whatever is in /Developer/Applications any more anyway? Sounds more like it’s an old mdimporter from a very old version of Xcode which is no-longer needed so Apple blacklisted it so it doesn’t spin up resources doing nothing useful.
> 3. Are there other blacklisted Spotlight importer plugins? If so, how do we find out?
No idea.
>
> Thanks for helping clear up this mystery, there is no write up on this subject that I could find on the web.
>
> -Michael Domino
>
>
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