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Spotlight can't search rtf documents in Big Sur

I'm having the problem (documented here) where Big Sur can't search the contents of rtf documents. Just updated to 11.2, and still no love. Has anyone found a workaround?

Posted on Feb 3, 2021 12:53 PM

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This remains a bug-fix candidate for Apple, as the Spotlight RichText importer continues to not find RTF content strings.


One could use programmatically get all RTF files in a folder tree, and then systematically open and search their content for the intended string. Matching files would go into an Array, and then these could be displayed in a Finder window when the application is finished. The other way to omit using Spotlight.


Posted on Feb 3, 2021 1:36 PM

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Feb 3, 2021 1:36 PM in response to theolog

This remains a bug-fix candidate for Apple, as the Spotlight RichText importer continues to not find RTF content strings.


One could use programmatically get all RTF files in a folder tree, and then systematically open and search their content for the intended string. Matching files would go into an Array, and then these could be displayed in a Finder window when the application is finished. The other way to omit using Spotlight.


Spotlight can't search rtf documents in Big Sur

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