Microsoft Office / Outlook 2011, Lion Install, multiple mdworker32 crashes
After having experienced two successful installs at the office, on a MacBook Pro and iMac duoCore (both installing atop Snow Leopard), I decided to perform an install on my home iMac (Nov. 2009 i7 2.8GHz model). All went well until I rebooted and launched Outlook 2011 and Safari. I don't think my launching Safari had anything to do with it, but the error/crash dialogs started popping up on my screen, one after another, after I had launched Safari, which was shortly after I had launched Outlook.
The crash dialogs mentioned Outlook and mdworker32. Googling about this I found it pertained to Spotlight indexing. What I was unable to Google up was anyone else having the same problem after having installed Lion. I was also not able to find out why this is happening either.
The crash dialogs would appear about once every 20 seconds. During this whole time, I could see that Spotlight was indexing my iMac's internal 1TB HD. I verified the problem in Activity Monitor and the Console logs. The link between Spotlight and Outlook and mdworker32 was undeniable.
I Googled a bit more and then decided to follow someone's advice about removing the "Microsoft Office.mdimporter" file from:
iMac/Macintosh HD/Library/Spotlight
The errors continued. I Googled again. This time, I found that someone suggested removing the "Microsoft Outlook.mdimporter" from:
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook/Contents/Library/Spotlight
After pulling that file out and onto my Desktop, the error dialogs ceased. I have yet to put that file back inside the Outlook app, but I must say I am very disconcerted about having been forced to "hack the Outlook app" to get the errors to stop. And I am also aware that by having removed that file from the Outlook app, Spotlight will not index my emails. I'm not pleased about that.
Since no one appears to have this same problem, as evidenced by the fact I alone am reporting it (with regard to OS 10.7 Lion and Outlook), I therefore must ask if you feel this is a Lion issue or an Outlook compatibility bug with Lion?
Obviously, I did not have this problem under Snow Leopard, so Lion is indeed involved in, apparently, breaking the "Microsoft Outlook.mdimporter" plugin inside the Outlook app. Even so, why would I alone get this? For truly, I am not alone in running Outlook 2011 on an OS X Lion iMac i7. If this problem was widespread, I would expect others to have reported it before me. And yet, if one contends it is something exclusive to me, then I must ask "why"?
So far, I am not having any other problems with Lion. I would therefore appreciate hearing your thoughts and advice.
Thank you.
P.S. I see that someone here has reported something similar with mdworker32 and Office 2008, although that older discussion had nothing to do with OS X Lion:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2141809?answerId=10122391022#10122391022
Stranger and stranger.
Nov. 2009 iMac i7 2.8GHz-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)
