Re: Search options
Re: Search options
- Subject: Re: Search options
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:52:44 -0700
On 2013 Jul 31, at 08:45, email@hidden wrote:
> what are the recommended search facilities for searching for things not indexed by Spotlight? Or am I limited to task wrappers or NSFileManager directory enumerations? Clearly that could take a lot of time and resources to search that way.
Several years ago I looked into this and concluded that the fastest, *reliable* file search on Mac OS X was still the ancient PBCatalogSearchSync() or PBCatalogSearchAsync(). Does anyone know a more modern API which can beat these?
If not, you can still use my Cocoa wrapper…
http://github.com/jerrykrinock/ClassesObjC/blob/master/SSYCarbonSearcher.m
Demo project…
http://github.com/jerrykrinock/SSYCarbonSearcher
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