Snow Leopard + Entourage + Spotlight= Not Working

[mjfarsi]

After installing Snow Leopard my email messages from Entourage are not showing up in spotlight searched.

I have tried going to Preferences-> Spotlight in entourage and pressing 'rebuild' but that doesn't seem to do the trick.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I heavily rely on this feature.

 

[mjfarsi]

surely, i am not the only one?

 

[iateyourcheese]

Nope. It's happening to me, too. I'm trying to rebuild the spotlight index to see if that helps. Fingers crossed...

 

[DMann]

Nope. It's happening to me, too. I'm trying to rebuild the spotlight index to see if that helps. Fingers crossed...

Try removing all 3rd party mdimporters found in System/Library/Spotlight. 3rd party mdimporters interfere with the mdworker_32 process of indexing meta data for Spotlight, and removing them solves this problem - this may work for Entourage as well.

 

[iateyourcheese]

Will look into that, but the computer is only two weeks old and there's nothing on it besides Office 2008 and Photoshop Elements.

 

[DMann]

Will look into that, but the computer is only two weeks old and there's nothing on it besides Office 2008 and Photoshop Elements.

Both Office 2008 and PE have proven to be disruptive.

 

[iateyourcheese]

Interesting, should there be a mdimporter file for Offfice in that folder? I don't see any files related to Office or Entourage.

It looks like it's starting to work again. I followed the directions here: http://officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Entourage/11299

 

[DMann]

Interesting, should there be a mdimporter file for Offfice in that folder? I don't see any files related to Office or Entourage.

I found a Microsoft Office.mdimporter lurking in there. I removed it, and Spotlight functioned properly.