Peeking into an Xcode application bundle reveals the following Spotlight importers:
caradhras:~ --> find /Applications/Xcode-5.0.2.app -name \*.mdimporter
/Applications/Xcode-5.0.2.app/Contents/Applications/Application Loader.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/MZSpotlight.mdimporter
/Applications/Xcode-5.0.2.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/uuid.mdimporter
Running this command
mdimport -g /Applications/Xcode-5.0.2.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/uuid.mdimporter ~
finally indexes the .xcarchive
bundle that is in the root of the user's home directory. It does NOT index the bundles in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives
, though, even when I explicitly point mdimport
to this folder.
The question remains: Why is uuid.mdimporter
not run automatically?
EDIT
The solution was to reboot the machine (logout/login might have been sufficient), archive bundles outside of ~/Library
are now properly indexed. The reason why I needed to reboot probably is this:
- I am using a privileged admin user (A) for installing software, but I am using a different, non-privileged user (U) for normal work, such as developing with Xcode.
- I was logged in with user U at the time I installed Xcode with user A
- Since that time I have never rebooted, nor made any logins (I prefer sending my machine to sleep over night instead of shutting it down). Presumably, the list of active Spotlight importers is updated (probably by launch services) only when logging out/logging in, or after a reboot.
Anyway, during troubleshooting I found that you can check the list of active Spotlight importers by running mdimport -L
(note that different users can have different Spotlight importers active at the same time). Unsurprisingly, after the reboot uuid.mdimporter
is now listed, while before the reboot it was not.
Here is a useful Apple document that I found after some googling: Troubleshooting Spotlight Importers.
FINAL SOLUTION
Configure Xcode so that the archive folder is located outside of ~/Library
. In Xcode 6 you can do this in the Preferences dialog, under the "Locations" tab.