Re: New Spotlight Info
Re: New Spotlight Info
- Subject: Re: New Spotlight Info
- From: Scott Stevenson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:44:46 -0800
On Nov 8, 2004, at 5:23 PM, Wade Tregaskis wrote:
This seems dangerously ironic - the NeXT (aka Apple post-modern)
argument against resource forks was that they made it hard to transfer
data between devices & other platforms... yet, I can send a Classic
app via most IM services (those that support AppleDouble) and via
email, but not an app package...
Which do you think is more likely to survive NFS/UFS? :)
In summary, how possible is it to use Spotlight's stored data
reliably... obviously you couldn't rely on it in the same way as a
resource fork, but somewhat along the lines of what the original
poster was asking, could you perhaps make use of it regularly, if it's
available? I would imagine for a static (unchanging) file, there's no
reason why you couldn't use Spotlight's meta-data index all the time
for it
Eh?
e.g. why re-invent the wheel with your own searching & indexing, when
you can use Spotlight coupled with an importer for your data?
I suppose all this assumes that 3rd parties can access Spotlight's
resources programmatically, which seems only logical, yes?
And yes, I'm aware of the NDA's and all that sort of thing. Apple
just seem to have released a lot of documentation on Spotlight, as an
exception to their typical tightness, so I'm hoping they're more
willing to talk to developers about it (i.e. than not at all, for
those who aren't amongst the privileged, rich elite ;) ).
I think your answers are available on this page, where it says
"Examining a File's Meta-data":
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html
- Scott
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