Spotlight indexing may hang if Finale is installed

May 28, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Some '.mdimporter' files in the Spotlight folder may cause problems.

There is another reason Spotlight may hang - if you are a musician and have Finale 2010 installed, the file 'Finale.mdimporter' causes endless Crash Reporter entries in Console, and the indexing will either show a completion time of several days, or simply not ever finish. Removing this file and restarting Spotlight (using a utility or CLI command, or just restarting) fixes the problem. The file is found in /Library/Spotlight (note this is the root level Library, not the one inside System or Users folder).

There are several other '.mdimporter' files in that folder, to evidently assist Spotlight, and I have not had a problem with any except this one from MakeMusic.

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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