How to create a spotlight for a file

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The first thing I do in this situation is verify that my UTIs are working as expected. For example:

$ echo 'Hello Cruel World!' > tmp.txt
$ echo 'Hello Cruel World!' > tmp.cdt
$ mdls -name kMDItemContentType tmp.txt
kMDItemContentType = "public.plain-text"
$ mdls -name kMDItemContentType tmp.cdt
kMDItemContentType = "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge80g3dy"

Here you can see a 

.txt
file has the expected UTI whereas, on my system, a 
.cdt
file has a dynamic UTI. If the UTI is wrong your importer is not going to see the file, so that’s the first thing to check.

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