If you used automator or applescript to create a new "application."
This new application would simply launch the application that is
hidden. Spotlight would index these I believe.....
KW
On Jan 29, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Karl Kuehn wrote:
I am new to a position overseeing 400 Macs (10.4 for this year,
10.5 coming over the summer), and have walked into a well developed
and maintained image that I am trying to contribute to. So I am
trying my luck with some of the odder issues.
One of the issues I ran my head into a wall over yesterday was that
the image has a bunch of apps that place themselves directly into /
Applications (the Adobe Creative Suite for example), and a decision
was made before I got here to create a folder with aliases to them
(actually softlinks, but it does not change anything in this case)
and then to hide the actual applications (using SetFile -a V).
This works well for most parts, but has the unfortunate side effect
that Spotlight (by design) does not index things that are hidden, or
in folders that are hidden. And in fact it is a bit over-engineered
in that it will even look at soft-links and determine the real path,
and realize that that is hidden. I spent some time yesterday trying
to find creative ways around this (softlinks, aliases, aliases on
other volumes, etc.) and have not come up with a way of getting
around this reliably. I even played around with the /.Spotlight-V100/
_rules file, but that did not help.
I did find that if I un-hid the application, that it would make it
into Spotlight, and would remain there after re-hiding. But there
are two problems with that: I have 400 computers to do this to, and
there are different clusters of those computers with different
combinations of applications (so pushing out a pre-populated
Spotlight index is probably not practical), and anything I did to
the spotlight index would have to be maintained on my side, and
could go away if Spotlight decided to dump its index and re-index.
Anyone have any bright ideas on this front?
--
Karl Kuehn
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