mdimport for debugging

[sportsnapper]

Hi,

I think you should add to the pinned troublshooting post the use of mdimport to aid understanding of what exactly is in the pdf file that you're working on. I spend some time searching the forum for this command - as I'd used it before but couldn't remember exactly what I'd used (and searching for something you don't knwo the name of is always fun ).

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mdimport -d2 [i]filename[/i]

and looking at the kMDItemTextContent filed really helped me fix some rules that weren't working.

[Mr_Noodle]

Actually, an easier way to do this (for those who don't want to use the commandline) is to open the file in Preview, select all the text and paste it into a plain text document in TextEdit. I'm not sure if the results are identical but it's easier to deal with and should help with content matching.