[OS X TeX] status of Spotlight indexing of .tex files?

Gary L. Gray gray at engr.psu.edu
Thu Dec 8 11:08:00 EST 2005


On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Norm Gall wrote:

> Sorry. I hadn't yet finished my morning coffee.

No problem. I've been in that position many times (every day?). :-)

> It is clear to me that the importer facilities in Tiger are still  
> pretty rough. There should be a straight-forward way of resetting  
> the importer look-up tables.
>
> I think Adam is right: wait for it. There is something goofy about  
> the way in which the importer list updates itself. Perhaps you have  
> in the past installed an importer that is interfering.
>
> Last try:
>
> What is the output for mdimport -L?

It is (very cool, by the way):

loon:~ gray$ mdimport -L
2005-12-08 11:06:24.718 mdimport[425] Paths: id(501) (
     "/Applications/TeX Apps/TCOBrowser.app/Contents/Library/ 
Spotlight/TCOImporter.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/Image.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/Audio.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/Font.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/PS.mdimporter",
     "/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/iPhoto.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/QuickTime.mdimporter",
     "/Applications/TeX Apps/BibDesk.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/ 
BibImporter.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/Mail.mdimporter",
     "/Applications/Transmit.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Transmit  
Favorite Importer.mdimporter",
     "/Library/Spotlight/AppleWorks.mdimporter",
     "/Library/Spotlight/DVIImporter.mdimporter",
     "/Library/Spotlight/Keynote.mdimporter",
     "/Library/Spotlight/SourceCode.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/QuartzComposer.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/vCard.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/Application.mdimporter",
     "/Applications/TimeSlice 3.0 beta 5 dev 13.app/Contents/Library/ 
Spotlight/TimeSlice.mdimporter",
     "/Library/Spotlight/Pages.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/PDF.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/Bookmarks.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/Chat.mdimporter",
     "/Library/Spotlight/Wolfram Notebook.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/SystemPrefs.mdimporter",
     "/Applications/Delicious Library.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/ 
Delicious Library Importer.mdimporter",
     "/Applications/Linotype FontExplorer X.app/Contents/Library/ 
Spotlight/FontExplorerXMDI.mdimporter",
     "/System/Library/Spotlight/iCal.mdimporter"
)


-- Gary
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