Old problem with Spotlight and Word .docx files

There is an old problem with Spotlight not finding the Word .docx files.  You can find old discussions about it since 2008.  But despite this problem being old has never been resolved.

The essence of the issue is that Spotlight relies on a variety of software modules for the index files.  Projector selects the module suitable for each type of different file of the index.  These indexing modules all have the suffix of file .mdimporter.  Name of the module for indexing Microsoft office files is "Microsoft Office.mdimporter" and it can be found with a few other modules of .mdimporter in/library/Spotlight /.  The "Microsoft Office.mdimporter" module has rights author of Microsoft inside its packaging info so we know who wrote it.  But this module is included with all new Macs from Apple.  This is perhaps why this problem has never been corrected - the software is written by Microsoft, but delivered by Apple.

The symptoms of the problem are that Spotlight will find no content in some .docx files.  It is unclear why it fails on some .docx files, but not others.  This problem does not affect other Microsoft formats such as .doc, .xls, .xlsx, etc..

Because Apple wants to sell Macs to business, and companies make heavy use of MS Office in general, we could think that it would be a priority to fix.  But given that this problem is 7 years old and still not resolved I do not.

Any suggestions on possible alternatives would be welcome.

After further investigation, I discovered that the problem is not with "Microsoft Office.mdimporter" as I had thought.  If we run the mdimport(1)-d1 you can see what importer is used. It turns out that for the .docx files, the importer is called 'RichText.mdimporter' which has a copyright by Apple.  And if you use mdimport(1), the file will then be found by Spotlight.  If the issue is not the importer, but rather everything that is triggering the importer to run the .docx files updated.  Here's to blame Microsoft for this one...

As a workaround, I force indexing my files .docx with a Bash script, which is started by cron.  The script indexes all the .docx that have been modified in the last 24 hours and runs every hour via cron.  If someone is interested in the details just post here and I'll include the script in another post.

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