[X4U] Adding Spotlight Comments to multiple items?

B. Kuestner kuestner at macnews.de
Sun Jan 8 12:56:06 PST 2006


> No they didn't - you just don't understand what they are for. They  
> are _not_ meant to be comments for everyone; they are written to  
> _your_ Spotlight index, and, for that reason, don't get transferred  
> to others. It makes total sense.

Really? I can't see why if the so-called HFS-savvy cp and mv will  
lose my comments then. Much less sync command line tools used for  
backups. What good is a backup if it loses my manually added metadata?

Nor if I store my data on a volume with another filesystem. Resource  
forks are kept, but not comments as I know.

No, Apple missed this one badly. I agree with the file transfer  
though somewhat and the privacy issue. Obviously Microsoft keeps  
metadata in their office documents and here privacy does become an  
issue as you indicate.

Björn


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