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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'

  • 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

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