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Question: Spotlight does not work with Thunderbird? mdimporter installed but no work

Hello,
additional to my Apple-Mail i still use Thunderbird for my old PC-Accounts and the old mails.
Thunderbird runs quite well, but the Mac-OS Spotlight does not find anything within the Mails stored in Thunderbird.
The mdimporter from Mozilla is installed,
I made reboots, re-Index, Double-Clicks, added the thunderbird-Folder to the private and removed again and everything else i could find anywhere.
Nothing works.

Anybody here who might give me a useful hint?
Kind regards

Falk

iMac 2.66 CD2, MacBook 2.2, iPhone 3G, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on May 20, 2009 11:54 PM

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May 21, 2009 8:33 AM in response to V.K. In response to V.K.

Sure there seems to be a way...
If you read f.e. this here:
http://chantc.blogspot.com/2007/10/integrating-thunderbird-into-spotlight.html
you find a lot of information that it works..
I found a lot of places in the www that there seem to be some problems running the thunderbird-mdimportert with leopard. With tiger it should work, but like my leopard.

Any further hints?

May 21, 2009 8:33 AM

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May 21, 2009 8:49 AM in response to Falk Gottschalk In response to Falk Gottschalk

ok this is some extra piece of software which seems to create a separate index for Thunderbird emails outside of the database files which can then be searched by spotlight. I don't use it so can't comment on this directly. one obvious thing is that you'd have to include system files in your search before you see any results from the thunderbird folder because all this stuff lives inside your user Library. to include system files in a search start finder search using command+f, click on "kind" scroll and click on "other". in the resulting popup select 'system files' and change the settings to include them in the search.

May 21, 2009 8:49 AM

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