Von: Jan Erik Moström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: 28. Oktober 2006 15:55:21 MESZ
Betreff: Spotlight and indexing of text files
If I've understood things correctly Spotlight indexes files that
have the extension "txt" or the file type "TEXT". BBEdit creates
files with file type "TEXT" but I would like to start using a
custom extension and sometimes these files will not have a file
type (or should I say the empty file type). Anyway, I suppose I
need to write a custom importer for Spotlight ... but a) being
lazy, b) having never used XCode or Objective-C, I would like to
ask if someone already have written such an importer that I could
copy and modify?
A simple modification of the the RichText.mdimporter is needed. First
find the type (according to Spotlight) of the files you want indexed
using this command in the Terminal:
mdimport -n -d1 theFileName.ext
which outputs something like:
Import 'theFileName.ext' type 'someSpotlightType' no mdimporter
Now take that file type (someSpotlightType) and add it to the
Info.plist file located at:
/System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter/Contents/Info.plist.
Add it in the array for LSItemContentTypes:
<key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
<string>MDImporter</string>
<key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
<array>
<string>someSpotlighType</string>
<string>public.rtf</string>
<string>public.html</string>
<string>public.xml</string>
<string>public.plain-text</string>
<string>com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text</string>
<string>com.apple.rtfd</string>
<string>com.apple.webarchive</string>
</array>
</dict>
</array>
Now go back to the Terminal and import the files in question
(mdimport /PathToFiles/ToImport), or you can even re-import
everything (sudo mdimport /). To see what is going on, add the -d1
switch to the mdimport command. Now Spotlight will be able to handle
the new file types -- add as many as you like. Of course, you want to
make sure that you only add files that are in fact text files!
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