Those Rich Text files which have been created or changed between 15 July 2020 (release of the 10.15.6 update) and 26 April 2021 (release of the 11.3 update) still won’t be added to a volume’s Spotlight indexes unless you force those indexes to be rebuilt for that whole volume.įorcing rebuild of a volume’s Spotlight indexes Updating to 11.3 fixes the bug in RichText.mdimporter, but that will only index newly created or changed Rich Text files. For those using Catalina, the only way to fix this bug is therefore to upgrade to Big Sur 11.3.1. I’ve checked the matching Catalina Security Update 2021-002, released at the same time as Big Sur 11.3 although that includes updates to five other mdimporters, it doesn’t include a new version of RichText.mdimporter, implying that this bug still hasn’t been fixed in Catalina. This was a bug introduced most probably in build 319.60.100 of RichText.mdimporter (in System/Library/Spotlight) which shipped with Catalina 10.15.6, and was perpetuated in more recent builds included in Big Sur, until it was finally fixed in build 326.11 in the 11.3 update.Ĭuriously, although this bug results in the contents of all RTF files being completely omitted from Spotlight’s indexes, it doesn’t affect RTFD documents, although they too include Rich Text files which have been correctly indexed throughout.
If you’re running Catalina or any version of Big Sur prior to 11.3, your Mac’s Spotlight search won’t work on Rich Text (RTF) documents.
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