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Re: Accessing Stickies' data
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Re: Accessing Stickies' data


  • Subject: Re: Accessing Stickies' data
  • From: Jim Thompson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:20:20 +0900

Thanks. Reading Stickies' data as text would not be a problem. I thought initially that Stickies' file is a database file. In such case, I thought I could get the number of records easily. Since Mr. Thompson said it's not a database file, I didn't think I could get the number of records or windows, which is my only objective. So I gave up.

Yours,

Jim



On Dec 10, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Deivy Petrescu wrote:

Jim

you should try before giving up....

<script>

set stickiescontents to read (POSIX file "/Users/deivy/Library/ StickiesDatabase" as alias)
stickiescontents


<\script>


On Dec 9, 2010, at 09:51 , Jim Thompson wrote:

Okay...  Thanks a lot for your advice.

Hmm...  I give up.

Jim


On Dec 9, 2010, at 10:32 PM, André Renault wrote:

[NSMutableData readFromFile:…]

Sent from my iPhone

On Dec 9, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Steve Thompson <email@hidden> wrote:


On 9 Dec 2010, at 04:44, Jim Thompson wrote:

And I get an error. So is there any way to access this database file and get the number of records in it?

It's not a database file. Stickies stores the data as NSMutableData - that is, it's a long string of characters that Stickies parses in order to display the data within. And to further complicate it, NSMutableData is binary data so you couldn't, for example, grep the file for the string that marks the end of one note and the start of another.


I'm not saying it's impossible but it's not going to be easy.

Steve
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