[X4U] Thoughts on Spotlight?

Neil Cadsawan rainer3 at mac.com
Sat Apr 30 17:25:16 PDT 2005


On Apr 30, 2005, at 7:37 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:


> On 4/30/05 2:31 PM, Neil Cadsawan <rainer3 at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> What Tiger doesn't do well is let you select a group of items and  
>> let  you
>> edit this information directly from this selection. ...  If you  
>> "get info" on
>> all these items as  they're selected, you get a bunch of Info  
>> windows popping
>> up and  would have to enter in information one by one.  Not good.
>>
>>
>
> Instead of selecting Get Info using Command-I, select Show  
> Inspector using
> Command-Option-I.
>
> Finally! We can now choose between having a Multiple Item Info  
> window or
> multiple Get Info windows (like in pre-OS X). The latter is very  
> helpful for
> showing a side-by-side comparison of two folders/items while the  
> former is
> very helpful for adding up the size of folders/items and applying  
> the same
> file permissions to multiple items.
>

I tried this, but there's no field to add any Spotlight Comments to  
the selected files.


-Neil Cadsawan



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