Re: Spotlight w/ HFS Extended Attributes
Re: Spotlight w/ HFS Extended Attributes
- Subject: Re: Spotlight w/ HFS Extended Attributes
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 02:15:08 -0400
On May 4, 2005, at 12:07 AM, Lee Morgan wrote:
Sorry this is more Spotlight related than Cocoa, but seeing that
there's no Spotlight mailing list, and my app is Cocoa based - I
guess this is the closest I get.
file a bug (and send me the number) or mail DTS and express your
interest in a Spotlight mailing list. Please..
I realize that the new HFS Extended Attributes are not exposed to
the higher level API's yet, and also that Spotlight doesn't extract
their contents during indexing. However I'm working on a
application that would greatly benefit from Spotlight indexing this
information. Is it possible to write a Spotlight importer that
handles every file with out it interfering with other plug-ins? So
that I can extract the extended attributes and add it to the
Spotlight store.
No, this isn't currently possible to my knowledge.
If not, any recommendation on an alternative solution? I need to
store user specified meta data with any given file. I've considered
using the extended attributes and just creating my own index of
them, however this means during a search that I would have to
perform two searches - one for Spotlight and then from those
results form another for my own extended attributes (or vise-versa,
which would probably be faster come to think of it).
Solved your own problem.. excellent! :-)
--
"William Cheeseman ... is said not to be a doofus in real life." -
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Online
Scott Anguish
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