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Re: MDItemCreate very, very, very, slow -- and fails
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Re: MDItemCreate very, very, very, slow -- and fails


  • Subject: Re: MDItemCreate very, very, very, slow -- and fails
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:30:46 -0800
  • Thread-topic: MDItemCreate very, very, very, slow -- and fails

On or about 2/15/06 9:12 AM, thus spake "Vince DeMarco" <email@hidden>:

> The Apple front ends don't call MDItemCreate(), all of them do a
> Kaelin suggested.
>
> If you create a query for the items you want, ask the query to sort
> the attributes, then instead of asking the server for the items via
> MDItemCopyAttribute()..
> you ask the query for the value of a sort attribute.

But we have determined (see the earlier thread that Hamish referred to) that
this approach doesn't work for kMDItemPath, which is the attribute I want.
"But there's a *hole* in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza..." m.

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