Experienced users know that third-party database-type apps can make their entries accessible to Spotlight by depositing special files in ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/[AppName]. I have a number of apps that do this, such as Evernote, MacJournal, DevonThink Pro -- and Safari!
I'm posting here because I'm having trouble with DEVONThink Pro, and the developers are at wit's end (so am I). For reasons that escape me, all of a sudden, the DevonThink Pro entries stopped appearing in Spotlight searches. They can't be excluded from System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results, and besides, nothing has changed there. I have:
1. Made sure that Spotlight indexing is enabled for DTP by going into "database properties" and toggled spotlight indexing on and off (and clicked the "rebuild" button). There are 1211 files with the file extension .dtp1 in ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/DEVONThink Pro/[database name]
2. Had Spotlight reindex my hard drive
3. Turned off Spotlight indexing for the DTP database, deleted DTP, restarted, reinstalled DTP, and turned Spotlight indexing on again.
4. Tried to manually reimport the DTP entries by typing
mdimport -r -p -d2 /Applications/DEVONthink\ Pro.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/DEVONthink\ Spotter.mdimporter
The results were:
Total processing time spent in importer plug-ins: 0.000000 seconds for 0 files
Top 0 most expensive files for importer plug-ins:
Any idea as to what could be wrong?
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