FileVault and Spotlight

A week ago I've put on FileVault on all my files + yesterday I've installed the latest Google Importer for Spotlight. Now Spotlight doesn't work anymore. Is this a bug caused by the Google Importer ?
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A disk authority repair solved my problem. Then a system restart, and afterwards when launching spotlight, indexing started and all OK.

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#!/bin/bash
PicDir=$HOME/Desktop/Pictures
MovDir=$HOME/Desktop/Movies
for f in $PicDir/*
do
     if [ ! -d "$f" -a "${f##*.}" == "jpeg" ]; then
          comment=$(mdls -raw -name kMDItemFinderComment "$f")
          if [[ $comment != "(null)" ]]; then
               picname=${f##*/}
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               fi
          fi
     fi
done

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