Exchange contacts not showing up in Spotlight

I opened a bug. Let's see.

Best regards,
Stephan.

10.6.2 still not working for me although i did notice something strange. i did a spotlight search for kind:contact and noticed that a few names did come up whose metadata files i tracked down to the following folder (/Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Sources/5C79DA93-7B09-4DF4-90EB-6A0EF2819E2C/Metadata) where i found that 26 contacts were listed with no specific pattern.

i expected spotlight to find at least 1000 contacts since that's how much i had last time i checked so something is obviously wrong but its hard to tell what. also note that i do not have any contacts besides those on exchange. (none 'on my computer')

Same here still. 10.6.2 and contacts from exchange still not there. However - contacts created on my Macbook that have been synced TO exchange do show up (I can check this via pendolino's kind:contacts tip).

So the issue seems to be that contacts downloaded from an exchange server don't show up, whereas contacts created in 10.6.2 that are synced to the exchange server do show up. Note I am specifically talking about contacts stored on exchange, and NOT contacts that are stored "On My Mac"

great find alx99. i had not realized that only contacts that had been created or edited and THEN synced to exchange do show up and are indexed by spotlight.

i confirmed this by editing one contact that was not showing up and then saving and right after it showed up in a spotlight search where it was not before.

its a strange bug and i do confirm that i, as well, do not have any contacts 'on my mac' as all are stored on exchange and synced.

they do show up fine in the address book as far as i can tell as well as on my iphone through exchange activesync that i have had running perfectly since it was introduced last year.

alx99: I'm having the same experience. Once I edit a contact it shows up in Spotlight. But those that come in from the server don't. This is unfortunate as I have over 1100 contacts. I wonder if Apple has a fix on the way.

Same issue for me. If I edit an Exchange contact, it appears in subsequent Spotlight searches. Otherwise, Exchange server contacts are invisible to Spotlight. I have 10.6.2.

Message was edited by: historicus

i'm not sure Apple has been adequately alerted to this issue so I'd like to urge all of you to go here (http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html) and submit a short bug report so that they can promptly fix it.

I have spoken with Apple Support who was entirely unhelpful. I have the exact same problem and Apple has not acknowledged it at all. Others are discussing it here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10483155&#10483155

Help, Apple!

We're having the same issue with a shared address book on a Snow Leopard server (Carddav).
Shared adresses only show up in Spotlight searches when they have been edited on the local computer.

Filed a bug report.

Message was edited by: redeye_be

Hie everyone,
I've been looking everywhere to find an answer to that problem.
I just bought a Macbook Pro, synced it with my address book on Mobileme.
As a matter of fact, Spotlight won't find any contact in the AB, except the few I entered and edited on my new computer.
Really bothering.
Is there any chance that Apple is interested in this, and will fix it soon ?
Thanks.

For me, this is now FIXED in 10.6.3. Yay!

CORRECTION, this is NOT fixed in 10.6.3. Still an unresolved bug.

still no updates, still no solution. this is getting tiring. guys plese log your complaints on the link i posted a few weeks ago above.