Big Sur 11.3, Spotlight and RTF files
Posted: 2021-04-26 13:00:38
Previously, Spotlight under Big Sur would not find results when searching CONTENTS of RTF files for me. And others have also reported this problem. So, I had defaulted my save file type in Nisus to RTFD, which Spotlight would result.
Now, under Big Sur 11.3, Spotlight appears to be working normally again and will successfully search the contents of both RTF and RTFD files.
One caveat. It may have only been a matter of time for Spotlight indexing, but, I did not turn up results for the contents of RTF files until I dragged my User folder to the Privacy tab of Spotlight, exited System Preferences, then returned to Spotlight and deleted my User folder from the Privacy tab. This forces Spotlight to build a new index for whatever folder had been added, then removed, from the Privacy tab.
Finally, though YMMV.
Best,
Brad
Now, under Big Sur 11.3, Spotlight appears to be working normally again and will successfully search the contents of both RTF and RTFD files.
One caveat. It may have only been a matter of time for Spotlight indexing, but, I did not turn up results for the contents of RTF files until I dragged my User folder to the Privacy tab of Spotlight, exited System Preferences, then returned to Spotlight and deleted my User folder from the Privacy tab. This forces Spotlight to build a new index for whatever folder had been added, then removed, from the Privacy tab.
Finally, though YMMV.
Best,
Brad