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Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files
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Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files


  • Subject: Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files
  • From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 02:35:00 -0400


On May 2, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Kirk Kerekes wrote:

I have an application whose document format is a file-package with a proprietary extension containing multiple stock .rtfd files.

I would like for Spotlight to be able to find these standard documents without needing to write a metadata importer for them. The handiest thing would be some sort of attribute or flag that simply said "look inside this package instead of treating it as an opaque file". But I can't seem to find this concept in the docs anywhere.

I don't believe this will work. The document bundles are not recursed through.



Does SpotLight use/respect filter services? If I create a NSIdentity filter for my document "file" that equates it to a type of package (like rtfd) that Spotlight, et al are happy to search inside, should Spotlight then index the contents of my documents? (assuming, of course, that I make the inside of the package look at least a little like a RTFD file)



I don't know that Spotlight searches inside rtfd packages either.

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