[OS X TeX] Problem with Spotlight importer(s)

[Bruno Voisin]

Now that the newest TeXShop includes a TeX Spotlight importer, I have  
just attempted to index the relevant area of my home directory:

	mdimport ~/Documents/

and was expecting to index afterwards the gwTeX area:

	sudo mdimport -f /usr/local/teTeX/

Alas: while processing "mdimport ~/Documents/", my Mac came to  
practically a halt (Finder and Safari had to be Cmd-Alt-Esc'ed) and  
Terminal is now filling up with messages such as:

2006-01-09 17:42:56.196 mdimport[6456] Importer using too much memory  
(2911 MB), hit critical threshold.  Last file imported was: /Users/ 
brunovoisin/Documents/Articles/Article 4/Version 1/Article/Figures/ 
PDF-Panther/regimes5.pdf

2006-01-09 17:48:05.946 mdimport[6456] Importer using too much memory  
(2561 MB), hit critical threshold.  Last file imported was: /Users/ 
brunovoisin/Documents/Articles/Article 4/Version 2/Figures/Dessins/ 
dragall4.ai

2006-01-09 17:48:07.951 mdimport[6456] Importer using too much memory  
(2561 MB), hit critical threshold.  Last file imported was: /Users/ 
brunovoisin/Documents/Articles/Article 4/Version 2/Figures/EPS- 
Illustrator/field7hig100.eps

2006-01-09 17:48:11.761 mdimport[6456] Importer using too much memory  
(2561 MB), hit critical threshold.  Last file imported was: <no path>

2006-01-09 17:49:24.318 mdimport[6456] Importer using too much memory  
(2386 MB), hit critical threshold.  Last file imported was: /Users/ 
brunovoisin/Documents/Bibliographie/Par auteur/Chashechkin/Actuel/ 
Chashechkin-ondes-alphabétique.tex

2006-01-09 17:51:48.500 mdimport[6456] Importer using too much memory  
(2421 MB), hit critical threshold.  Last file imported was: /Users/ 
brunovoisin/Documents/Calculs/Oscillation/Monochromatique/2D/Javam/ 
Série 3/Données Javam/vflac016.m

2006-01-09 17:52:22.533 mdimport[6456] Importer using too much memory  
(2421 MB), hit critical threshold.  Last file imported was: /Users/ 
brunovoisin/Documents/Calculs/Oscillation/Monochromatique/3D/Dipôle/ 
Série 3/oscinv.nb

and so forth. Not one importer seems to be affected, but practically  
all of them (dealing with PDF, EPS, TEX, Mathematica files,  
Illustrator files etc.). DVI files are apparently indexed OK (I have  
Adam Maxwell's DVIImporter.mdimporter installed).

Could this be related with TeX.mdimporter eating up too much memory  
and affecting henceforth the other importers, or is it disconnected?  
My setup has 1GB RAM. I'm not sure I had ever attempted to index ~/ 
Documents/ previously, though I think I did index / once.

And now: to get back to a clean setup, what is necessary? Just running:

	mdutil -E

Or is more required?

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