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Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files

No this will not work. (Spotlight knows nothing about filter services)

Spotlight does not go into packages at all.

Basically you will have to write a plugin for you file-package that will also index the rtfd files stored within.

Vince

How would this work? If the files stored within got changed and spotlight doesn't pay attention to them then no importer would ever get called. How would you trigger this "re-indexing" of your file package?

Furthermore i'm a bit confused as to how to proceed with regard to an sqlite database.
If each file represents one result in a spotlight search, and my single-file sqlite database represents thousands of potential results, is there any way to do this other than managing two data stores(one sqlite database, and one folder full of special files representing each record in the sqlite database)?

I'm not using CoreData at the moment but i did come across this little article:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ NSPersistentDocumentTutorial/07_Metadata/chapter_8_section_7.html

I'm not sure i understand this one, which, admittedly is probably because my knowledge of CoreData is somewhat limited. However, what that article suggests is that somehow CoreData takes care of most of the work of doing a spotlight importer.
What confuses me is that if i have an sqlite database, and i make a change, my importer would get called independently, how would it know what "record" it is updating in spotlight?

Thanks!

	Ali

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 >Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files (From: Kirk Kerekes <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files (From: Vince DeMarco <email@hidden>)



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