Re: MDItemCopyAttribute and kMDItemFinderComment
Re: MDItemCopyAttribute and kMDItemFinderComment
- Subject: Re: MDItemCopyAttribute and kMDItemFinderComment
- From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:09:16 -0700
On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:30 PM, Jeremy W. Sherman wrote:
getxattr(2) will directly access the current on-disk attribute
value. Why
not just use it as Alastair suggested?
Can you point to any official documentation for the Finder comment
xattr name? The storage for it has changed before, so looking in the
xattrs appears to be an implementation detail.
--
adam
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.
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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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