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JBB
I've just noticed that Spotlight doesn't seem to be very good at looking into .docx files. (Finds some things, misses others.) Has anyone else had any problems with this? Is this a known issue?
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John McGhie
We'll need full version information to be able to answer that.
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I've just noticed that Spotlight doesn't seem to be very good at looking into
.docx files. (Finds some things, misses others.) Has anyone else had any
problems with this? Is this a known issue?
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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
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Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
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JBB
A further experiment. I created .doc and .docx versions of the same file, reindexed my hard drive, and then looked for a word in the file. Spotflight found it in the .doc file and didn't find it in the .docx file.
Conclusion: spotlight works better with .doc files than with .docx files.
Am I missing something? This is really depressing if true. I rely on searching for phrases from within finder. If I can't find things reliably in .docx files, I'm going to have to change everything back to .doc. Sigh.
Is this a known issue? Any hope for a fix with the next update?
Complete info on system here: Leopard (10.5.2), Mac Pro ( Model Name, Model Identifier: MacPro1,1, Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon, Processor Speed:2.66 GHz, Number Of Processors:2, Total Number Of Cores:4, L2 Cache (per processor):4 MB, Memory: 2 GB, Bus Speed:1.33 GHz, Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
Conclusion: spotlight works better with .doc files than with .docx files.
Am I missing something? This is really depressing if true. I rely on searching for phrases from within finder. If I can't find things reliably in .docx files, I'm going to have to change everything back to .doc. Sigh.
Is this a known issue? Any hope for a fix with the next update?
Complete info on system here: Leopard (10.5.2), Mac Pro ( Model Name, Model Identifier: MacPro1,1, Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon, Processor Speed:2.66 GHz, Number Of Processors:2, Total Number Of Cores:4, L2 Cache (per processor):4 MB, Memory: 2 GB, Bus Speed:1.33 GHz, Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
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Beth Rosengard
Hi JBB,
I've escalated this to MSFT and will post back if/when I get a response.
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I've escalated this to MSFT and will post back if/when I get a response.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur
Conclusion: spotlight works better with .doc files than with .docx files.
I'm wondering whether there could be something wrong with the Office
mdimporter.
Did you take a look at the logs in the Console to see if there is
anything wrong with the mds process or anything at all about the
mdimporter ??
Using "mdimport -L" in the Terminal, I can see that in my case, the
Microsoft Office.mdimporter located in /Library/Spotlight is active.
Can you check in this folder whether you can see it (and whether it is
indeed in version 12.0.2)??
Corentin
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John McGhie
Hi Corentin:
Yeah. I have "/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter" active here.
And it is version 12.0.2.
But Spotlight can't see WITHIN .docx here either. It can see the file name,
but not the content.
So we do have a bug in the .mdi importer. I'll put it in...
Cheers
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Yeah. I have "/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter" active here.
And it is version 12.0.2.
But Spotlight can't see WITHIN .docx here either. It can see the file name,
but not the content.
So we do have a bug in the .mdi importer. I'll put it in...
Cheers
I'm wondering whether there could be something wrong with the Office
mdimporter.
Did you take a look at the logs in the Console to see if there is
anything wrong with the mds process or anything at all about the
mdimporter ??
Using "mdimport -L" in the Terminal, I can see that in my case, the
Microsoft Office.mdimporter located in /Library/Spotlight is active.
Can you check in this folder whether you can see it (and whether it is
indeed in version 12.0.2)??
Corentin
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Corentin Cras-Méneur
John McGhie said:Hi Corentin:
Yeah. I have "/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter" active here.
And it is version 12.0.2.
But Spotlight can't see WITHIN .docx here either. It can see the file name,
but not the content.
So we do have a bug in the .mdi importer. I'll put it in...
What a pain.
I'll play around with the command line to see what the current
mdimporter actually does import in the Spotlight index but if you too
can't find anything, there is clearly something screwy.
Corentin
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JBB
More info! After forcing my Mac (described above) to reindex again, it seems to be seeing the contents of .docx files fine — with one exception. Footnotes and endnotes! Items there still seem to be invisible. (Seems minor, but as someone writing a book who relies on both and who frequently tweaks old ones as I go along and find new stuff, it isn't.)
Hope this proves to be nice and reproduceable. Thanks for working on it.
Hope this proves to be nice and reproduceable. Thanks for working on it.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur
More info! After forcing my Mac (described above) to reindex again, it
seems to be seeing the contents of .docx files fine
It could be a System issue then (that's why I suspected that taking a
look at the Console could help figuring out what's wrong).
If that is the case, it's up to Apple to fix it, but regardless, it is a
problem...
Corentin
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John McGhie
There is a bug in the .mdimporter.
It is built by Microsoft, but it is considered part of the operating system,
so we have to wait for Apple to send out the update.
Cheers
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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
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It is built by Microsoft, but it is considered part of the operating system,
so we have to wait for Apple to send out the update.
Cheers
More info! After forcing my Mac (described above) to reindex again, it seems
to be seeing the contents of .docx files fine — with one exception. Footnotes
and endnotes! Items there still seem to be invisible. (Seems minor, but as
someone writing a book who relies on both and who frequently tweaks old ones
as I go along and find new stuff, it isn't.)
Hope this proves to be nice and reproduceable. Thanks for working on it.
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Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/
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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
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Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
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Corentin Cras-Méneur
John McGhie said:There is a bug in the .mdimporter.
It is built by Microsoft, but it is considered part of the operating system,
so we have to wait for Apple to send out the update.
Yeah, as I played around quite a bit yesterday with my troubles with the
12.0.1 update, I noticed that it wasn't installed by the Office 2008
installer (or updated with the 12.0.1 updater),
Corentin
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