Posted: 2006-06-17 16:26:40
Dan, I said I wasn't sure if it was the HFS file-type or the file extension that determines which .mdimporter gets invoked. Your results seem to indicate that it's the file extension that's the key. When it's .doc it doesn't get indexed by Spotlight (because internally it's actually an rtf file), when it's rtf it does; irrespective of the HFS file-type. That's very unfortunate as it probably makes fixing this incompatibility more difficult.
This doesn't alter the fact that the underlying problem is that Nisus is disguising it's Word files by putting a .doc extension on what is actually an rtf file, and the MS Spotlight plug-in apparently can't handle this.
Just to verify we are on the same page - do you have a file called "Microsoft Office.mdimporter" in your /Library/Spotlight folder? Do you have MS Office (or Pages) installed on your system? Is this a PPC Mac or Intel? What version of OS X?
P.S. Of course your results also give you the workaround for your problem: change the extension to .rtf for all your NWX created Word files. Even better, don't create them as Word files in the first place - just save them as regular NWX .rtf files and the problem goes away. You can quite happily send .rtf files to Word users, it has no problem handling them (rtf is a MS file format originally); in fact that's what you are really doing when you create a Word file with NWX!
This doesn't alter the fact that the underlying problem is that Nisus is disguising it's Word files by putting a .doc extension on what is actually an rtf file, and the MS Spotlight plug-in apparently can't handle this.
Just to verify we are on the same page - do you have a file called "Microsoft Office.mdimporter" in your /Library/Spotlight folder? Do you have MS Office (or Pages) installed on your system? Is this a PPC Mac or Intel? What version of OS X?
P.S. Of course your results also give you the workaround for your problem: change the extension to .rtf for all your NWX created Word files. Even better, don't create them as Word files in the first place - just save them as regular NWX .rtf files and the problem goes away. You can quite happily send .rtf files to Word users, it has no problem handling them (rtf is a MS file format originally); in fact that's what you are really doing when you create a Word file with NWX!