Re: Spotlight index all data
Re: Spotlight index all data
- Subject: Re: Spotlight index all data
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:57:37 -0400
On Sep 28, 2009, at 12:48 PM, David Melgar wrote:
The Spotlight seem to talk exclusively about talk about searching
metadata. But what about the data itself? When I use Spotlight, it
finds references within the content of documents not just their
metadata.
When writing an importer, what metadata field is used to return the
document content or how does Spotlight search and/or index it? Is it
kMDItemTextContent? Is there a size limit on how large the string
value can or should be?
In my case I have a potentially large relational database of remote
filenames. I'd like the user to be able to search for the filenames
contained within the database using Spotlight. It is reasonable and
proper for me to generate a giant string of all filenames as a value
for kMDItemTextContent? Is there some other way I should go about
doing this?
Thanks
Old message.. but
kMDItemTextContent is search only. You can’t read the data from it.
This is clearly stated in the Spotlight Metadata Reference Docuentation
Also, you can’t assume Spotlight will search all directories. users
can prohibit this.
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