Re: Spotlight sources w/o actual files?
Re: Spotlight sources w/o actual files?
- Subject: Re: Spotlight sources w/o actual files?
- From: "Stephen J. Butler" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:00:21 -0500
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Rasmus Andersson <email@hidden> wrote:
> I would like to create a Spotlight plugin that allows me to search
> among a very big set of data, located at a central server (i.e. not
> able to store it locally) Thus I need to query this central storage
> for matches whenever I search for something in Spotlight. (I/O latency
> is not an issue)
>
> What I have understood from reading Spotlight Importer Programming
> Guide[1], there is no way to actually hook yourself in to when a user
> is performing a query, or even to register a custom data source which
> might be backed by for example network resources.
You could use MacFUSE to write a filesystem that exposes your server
data as files:
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
However, it appears people are having some problem getting Spotlight
to index such volumes:
http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel/browse_thread/thread/6a3e71e1f8bb1652
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