Is there a list of Spotlight Indexed file types?

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dave marshdave marsh
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in macOS edited January 2014
Hi again, does anyone know if Apple has published a list of applications that Spotlight can index the contents of? I've created a couple of FileMaker Pro 6 databases for home books and DVDs and wondered. Spotlight can traditionally find the name of the database, but doesn't appear to be able to read the embedded text records in the databases, or if it can it hasn't yet.

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    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
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    Originally posted by Dave Marsh

    Hi again, does anyone know if Apple has published a list of applications that Spotlight can index the contents of? I've created a couple of FileMaker Pro 6 databases for home books and DVDs and wondered. Spotlight can traditionally find the name of the database, but doesn't appear to be able to read the embedded text records in the databases, or if it can it hasn't yet.



    Looking in /Library/Spotlight and /System/Library/Spotlight I don't see any for FileMaker.



    Do a Spotlight search on "mdimporter".
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    dave marshdave marsh Posts: 355member
    Thanks for the timely reply, I didn't know how that worked. I sent an email off to FileMaker to see if they plan to create an mdimporter for Tiger.
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