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Re: New Spotlight Info
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Re: New Spotlight Info


  • Subject: Re: New Spotlight Info
  • From: Scott Stevenson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:31:55 -0800


On Nov 8, 2004, at 11:15 PM, j o a r wrote:

That's not the purpose of Spotlight. If you want to do the kinds of things we used to do with the resource fork, use a file package.

What about legacy file formats without any built in support for meta data, like perhaps TXT? I guess that the answer is that they're going to be supported only in the most basic way (date created, et.c.) by Spotlight?

Did you skip the Spotlight sessions? :)

You're not constrained by the format. Whatever information you (as the author of an importer) can infer from the file programmatically can be fed to Spotlight.

What John's saying is that Spotlight isn't a resource repository (packages are). It's designed to serve the user's information organization needs.


- Scott

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 >Re: New Spotlight Info (From: j o a r <email@hidden>)

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