[X4U] Adding Spotlight Comments to multiple items?

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:56 PM, B. Kuestner wrote:

>> 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.

I'm pretty sure both rsync and ditto have options that do retain  
comments, but I'd have to check. As for cp and mv, well, if you work  
from the command line, you're not likely to be using Spotlight  
comments. Sure, you can do both, but Mac OS X, while being a Unix  
system, is so with limitations. Spotlight isn't designed for command- 
line users; heck, they just use grep, right? :-)


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