Make spotlight index any file

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Make spotlight index any file

Problem :

Spotlight was not searching into certain files, even if simple text files (in my case .INI files)

Solution

Easy solution

• Download TextWrangler.app from the App Store.
• Reindex (?) mdimport -r /System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter

End of story.

Painful solution

• In terminal, type

mdimport -n -d1 file.extention

You should see one of the above, dependig if the type file is known by the OS or not

• unknown UTI : Imported 'file.extention' of type 'dyn.ah62d4rv4ge80e2pcr74u'

  • Feed MyUTIs.bundle with this file extention.

  • Go to next bullet

• known UTI : Imported 'file.extention' of type 'com.domain.other'

  • Add this type in /System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter/Contents/Info.plist (or other mdimporter if appropriate)
  • Reindex mdimport -r /System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter

Litterature

• delicious.com:kcassam:spotlight
• mdimport
• hints.macworld.com

not working
1.Add to MyUTIs.bundle

<key>UTExportedTypeDeclarations</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>UTTypeConformsTo</key>
			<string>public.plain-text</string>
			<key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
			<string>file.extention</string>
			<key>UTTypeTagSpecification</key>
			<dict>
				<key>public.filename-extension</key>
				<array>
					<string>reg</string>
					<string>ion</string>
					<string>bat</string>
					<string>cmd</string>
					<string>ksh</string>
					<string>kshell</string>

2. copy to my application folder
3. add to /System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter

<key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
			<array>
<string>file.extention</string>

3. reindex and restart