Non-indexing of word files in spotlight and error message

Question

Spotlight on my macbookpro seems not to index any of msword files (including those with .doc in the name), and so I tried going into the terminal and typing "mdimport -f directoryname. The result was an endless flood of error messages like those below. I'm clueless, but it seems like it's saying the appropriate plugin is not loading. Anybody understand what's really going on?
Thanks,
Tom
2006-04-01 20:32:26.541 mdimport[1488] CFLog (21): dyld returns 2 when trying to load /Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Office
2006-04-01 20:32:26.543 mdimport[1488] CFLog (22): Cannot find function pointer OfficeImporterPluginFactory for factory BFA4E323-1889-11D9-82C8-000A959816BE in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x328170 </Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter> (bundle, not loaded)
2006-04-01 20:32:26.575 mdimport[1488] CFLog (21): dyld returns 2 when trying to load /Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Office
2006-04-01 20:32:26.577 mdimport[1488] CFLog (22): Cannot find function pointer OfficeImporterPluginFactory for factory BFA4E323-1889-11D9-82C8-000A959816BE in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x328170 </Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter> (bundle, not loaded)
macbookpro 1.83   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  
powerbook g4 667   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Answer 1

I noticed that the update info showed that it was supposed to improve things. My experience was that when it came to content indexing Spotlight seemed to take its own sweet time about getting that done--it seemed like it continued to add content indexes long after it finished its regular index run. So that might be a factor. Also, it is my understanding that it does not index everything in very long files, only the first so many pages (don't remember just how many and am not sure that is correct info, Doc Smoke would know), and if that is true length could be a factor. I just re-indexed a folder full of MSWord docs, and Spotlight does seem to be finding the content now, however the files are all short, one to two pages. I did a search in another folder, which contains a few MSWord docs and which I had not re-indexed, and Spotlight did find one file that had a unique word but not another (in a longer file). So it looks like the situation may be improved, but you will have to re-index to see any of the improvement.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder