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Use the RichText.mdimporter instead
Thanks for the reply.
Regarding files with type dyn.*: I want to index my httpd.conf file and a few other "generic" system files. mdls /etc/httpd/httpd.conf returns:
Provided I add /etc/httpd to the Spotlight index path list, how do I get SL to index this file? What importer will be used? AFAIK Spotlight needs a recognized extension, or a recognized file type to index.
Any suggestions?
Use the RichText.mdimporter instead
From the terminal:
mdimport -d2 /etc/httpd/httpd.conf If you get NO output it means that Spotlight _cannot_ import the file. Which means it could either have no valid mdimporter which claims to be able to understand that file - or it might not be able to index it because Spotlight has been configured not to index files in /etc You can fix the later by modifying the hidden Spotlight config files - other hints show how to do that. Again I wouldn't recommend it (but I'm dull & boring). If you're sure Spotlight should be able to import the file (because you have modified the config files) then you also need to write an mdimporter to import config files. ;-) Of course you could modify SourceCode.mdimporter to handle .conf files but that will be a bit tricky. But as a favour to you personally (because we go back so far now) I'll take my Python importer and use it to create a .conf file importer. Expect it within the next 24hours or so. Check out http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/ for progress. Feel free to continue this thread on my blog.
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Code written (not actually based on my Python code):
http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/index.php/weblog/creating_a_generic_config_file_spotlight_importer/
Use the RichText.mdimporter instead
Wow--thanks. Im downloading now and will try ASAP.
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There's a new version online now that imports .conf, .log and .plist. |
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