Re: Getting Info from the Finder
Re: Getting Info from the Finder
- Subject: Re: Getting Info from the Finder
- From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 09:54:13 +0200
Hello Thomas
I'm sorry for writing things inaccurately, I will really write accurate information from now on.
Sorry.
http://www.hamsoftengineering.com/freeStuff/freeStuff.html is the link for the Spotlight Metadata.
I hope you got the link to the article about spotlight by Matt Neuburg.
It was in the Leopard series of articles they published. I found that useful but the article by Adam Bell is of course very good.
Regards
Tommy Bollman
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On 18. mai 2010, at 09.35, Thomas Fischer wrote:
> Hi Tommy,
>
> Thanks for the hints.
> hamsoft.com seems to be defunct,
> and macscripter.net returns no result when searching for mdls using Google, but there are three results when using Tag Search.
> The most significant and helpful one seems to be
> "Using Spotlight in your AppleScripts" (http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=24765).
> I'll take a look at that.
>
> All the best
> Thomas
>
> Am 18.05.2010 um 05:12 schrieb Tommy Bollman:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Sorry for the general inconvenience I mis posted one with a wrong address.
>>
>> The Article from tidbits below are quite useful as an intro to the spoltight programming guide found at ADC.
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Tommy Bollman
>>
>>
>>
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>> No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
>> -- Aesop
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>
>>> Date: 18. mai 2010 05.04.50 GMT+02.00
>>> To: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
>>> Subject: Re: Getting Info from the Finder
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Spotlight searches the metadata that mdls provides from a database generated with an mdimporter
>>> that basically gets the metadata that mdls has access to together with the contents of the data.
>>>
>>> If you can't search within your scripts with spotlight you should get the mdimporter from google.
>>>
>>> http://www.macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=24765 Spotlight tutorial
>>>
>>> In general you'll find everything you need at macscripter.net what mdls concersn.
>>>
>>> http://db.tidbits.com/article/9283 Its about Spotlight in general maybe of no use for you.
>>>
>>> The spotlight programming guide is very useful (at ADC ).
>>>
>>> A program called spotlight meta data from hamsoft.com is very useful as it shows you the metadata.
>>>
>>> There is also an old AppleScript Studio project called spotlighter which may be useful.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tommy Bollman
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
>>> -- Aesop
>>>
>>> On 18. mai 2010, at 03.47, Stockly, Ed wrote:
>>>
>>>> These links weren’t very helpful, a search on macscripter for spotlight returned 0 results and on tidbits 150 results, but it was hard to figure out which of Matt’s great articles you were referring too.
>>>>
>>>> I don’t think mdls is synonymous with Spotlight, mdls lists metadata for files, spotlight finds files,but I’m missing something, right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> There is a great guide on programming spotlight (mdls) at macscripter.net <http://macscripter.net>
>>>>> There is also a great article written by Matt Neuburg about spotlight on tidbits.com <http://tidbits.com>
>>>>> There is also the spotlight programming guide which is rather mandatory on adc.
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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