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Re: Spotlight query operator NOT

Subject: Re: Spotlight query operator NOT
From: Kaelin Colclasure <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 17:11:12 -0700


On May 1, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Pierre Bernard wrote:

Oddly enough the 2 Spotlight queries below match the very same files:
(( (kMDItemTextContent like[cdw] 'raja*')) && ( (kMDItemTextContent like[cdw] 'houdah*')))

(( (kMDItemTextContent like[cdw] 'raja*')) && ! ( ( (kMDItemTextContent like[cdw] 'houdah*')) ))

It's like the NOT operator is ignored. This is the same if I write the query like this:

( (kMDItemTextContent like[cdw] 'raja*')) AND (NOT ( ( (kMDItemTextContent like[cdw] 'houdah*')) )))

What gives?

The short version is, it's a bug. :-( Please file a Radar with <http://bugreporter.apple.com/>.

The longer version is, negating the results of a kMDItemTextContent term isn't (currently) supported -- because the underlying functionality needed to do so was not available from SearchKit in Tiger. Negating non-content terms should work as expected.

-- Kaelin

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