Re: programmatically tell when spotlight/mds is indexing
Re: programmatically tell when spotlight/mds is indexing
- Subject: Re: programmatically tell when spotlight/mds is indexing
- From: Saagar Jha <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:53:10 -0700
I couldn’t find a public API, but Metadata.framework defines _MDConfigCopyStoreInformation(NSString *path). It returns an dictionary containing the key “CurrentlyScanning”, which you might find useful.
Saagar Jha
> On Mar 18, 2017, at 09:37, sqwarqDev <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 18 Mar 2017, at 23:05, Jerome Krinock <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> To generalize your question, you want to reverse-engineer some other app to reveal some status information. I’ve had to do this a couple times.
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> Thanks for the thought, but my question was really just a sanity check to make sure that there isn’t an already existing public API I might have missed that a developer could use to query the status of mds.
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> Any kind of guesswork about what files may or may not be open when mds is indexing would be a bit too hit and miss for what I need.
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> Best
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> Phil
> @sqwarq
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