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Re: MDItemCopyAttribute and kMDItemFinderComment
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Re: MDItemCopyAttribute and kMDItemFinderComment


  • Subject: Re: MDItemCopyAttribute and kMDItemFinderComment
  • From: "Jeremy W. Sherman" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:30:42 -0400

getxattr(2) will directly access the current on-disk attribute value. Why
not just use it as Alastair suggested?

—Jeremy

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Chris Idou <email@hidden> wrote:

>
>
> I don't really want to be sending apple events to the finder since this is
> a background app, and it could be calling it fairly frequently, and I
> believe this can impact the user's foreground use of Finder.
>
> Does anybody know what the issue is? Mostly the synchronization between
> Finder Comments and spotlight seems instantaneous, but then on this occasion
> they seemed to refuse to sync.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
>
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Chris Idou wrote:
>
> > I've got a program which uses MDItemCopyAttribute to get the
> kMDItemFinderComment, and I was playing around testing it, by changing
> > the value in the Finder and seeing if the value changed in my program,
> and they ended up out of synch. It ends up that mdls returns a different
> value than xattr -l,
> > and MDItemCopyAttribute doesn't return the up to date value. Now that its
> out of synch, updating the value in Finder doesn't get it back in synch.
> >
> > Is this expected behavior? Should I be using something other than
> MDItemCopyAttribute to get the most up to date value?
>
> You should be sending an Apple event to the Finder:
>
> <http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2009/3/23/232927>
>
> --Michael
>
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