Re: Adding Spotlight comment data to folder/file
Re: Adding Spotlight comment data to folder/file
- Subject: Re: Adding Spotlight comment data to folder/file
- From: Kevin Muldoon <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:07:59 -0400
Oh my dear lord above. I think I'll one line it with a scripting bridge call. If it works.
On Jul 11, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Wim Lewis wrote:
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> On 11 Jul 2011, at 12:05 PM, Kevin Muldoon wrote:
>> Would like to get/set Spotlight comments into directories and files. I thought this would have been the easy part.
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> IIRC you can read them pretty easily as the kMDItemFinderComment metadata attribute. Setting them is harder.
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> The comments are stored in two places, AIUI --- an extended file attribute (com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment xattr) and in the .DS_Store file (maybe only on older OS revisions) --- neither of which seem like things other apps should mess with directly. I think the most-nearly-supported way to do this is still to send an aevt to the Finder (set the <comt> property of the file to the text you want).
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> Some example code here, though be aware it was mostly written in the 10.4 timeframe: https://github.com/omnigroup/OmniGroup/blob/master/Frameworks/OmniAppKit/OpenStepExtensions.subproj/NSFileManager-OAExtensions.m
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> Technote 2045 seems to have vanished softly and silently away from the web, but it's still available in Xcode's embedded document viewer.
>
Kevin Muldoon
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