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Spotlight not finding any Applications and files

Hi,


Spotlight is not finding any applications or files like a movie, read somewhere to try: arch -i386 mdimport /Applications.

That did not work and I ended up whit this errer message:


arch -i386 mdimport /Applications/

2013-02-19 09:29:05.030 mdimport[4817:f07] Error loading /System/Library/Spotlight/Application.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Application: dlopen(/System/Library/Spotlight/Application.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Applicat ion, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:

/System/Library/Spotlight/Application.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Application: mach-o, but wrong architecture

2013-02-19 09:29:05.031 mdimport[4817:f07] Cannot find function pointer MetadataImporterPluginFactory for factory 607F31DF-10A1-11D8-9372-0003936726FC in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x7c9a1cb0 </System/Library/Spotlight/Application.mdimporter> (bundle, not loaded)

(Error) Import: Could not create instance for plugIn 'file://localhost/System/Library/Spotlight/Application.mdimporter/'

(Error) Import: BAD IMPORTER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ file://localhost/System/Library/Spotlight/Application.mdimporter/


/kristian

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 19, 2013 12:34 AM

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Spotlight not finding any Applications and files

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