Re: Spotlight sources w/o actual files?
Re: Spotlight sources w/o actual files?
- Subject: Re: Spotlight sources w/o actual files?
- From: "Rasmus Andersson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:04:52 +0200
This is actually something I'm thinking of implementing. But still, it
would only be semi-useful, since the service I intend to interface
with is in many parts search-oriented. (Spotify, a music service)
Maybe I will fork this little project into two separate, small projects:
1) Spotlight importer for indexing objects previously seen by the user.
2) Fuse file system, for interfacing with the (Spotify) world.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:33 PM, <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 10 Jun 2008, at 10:57, Rasmus Andersson wrote:
>
>> Oh, just as I feared. The problem is the metadata itself is probably
>> hundreds of gigabytes, if not terabytes in size, so it would be
>> impossible to have mdimporter index "fake" files.
>
>
> One thing you could consider is to just create these fake files for items in
> the database that the user actually visits. At least that way they can do a
> spotlight search for something they remember visiting before. Similar in
> style to what happens with web sites you have visited in Safari. There is an
> index file for each of the items in Safari's history.
>
> Matt Gough
>
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Rasmus Andersson
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