Re: Complete Filename Searching
Re: Complete Filename Searching
- Subject: Re: Complete Filename Searching
- From: Rush Manbert <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:01:33 -0700
Thom McGrath wrote:
Hello all,
I wouldn't consider myself a Cocoa newbie, but I know I still have much
to learn. I have come across a question I cannot find an answer to
using the archives or other support sites. Hopefully somebody can point
me in the right direction.
I need to do a filename search of the entire system. Spotlight leaves
out many directories, such as ~/Library, which I do need to search. As
an example, searching for SubEthaEdit should return /Applications,
~/Library/Preferences/de.codingmonkeys.SubEthaEdit.plist, ~/ Application
Support/SubEthaEdit... and so. You get the idea.
I have tried using NSDirectoryEnumerator, but as I expected, it's slow.
Actually, slow would be an understatement - for this case, it's
completely intolerable.
So is there another API I can use? Or a way to ask Spotlight to search
everything - though I think that's impossible because I believe
Spotlight does not index the special directories.
Thanks for the help.
There are a couple of file/path searching classes developed on top of
Boost::filesystem. They aren't released with the Boost libraries, but
are available in the vault. Go to www.boost.org and click on the "Vault
Files" link.
I used one of these, but it's been about a year now and I don't remember
the details. Contact me off list if you want to pursue it and I'll try
to remember what I did. :-)
- Rush
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