[X4U] Thoughts on Spotlight?

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Sat Apr 30 19:44:54 PDT 2005


>Yes, Spotlight can find files and such based on simple criteria 
>(i.e. dates, names, file types, etc.) but it's true power comes when 
>you're searching for items based on their meta data.  Images that 
>are cmyk and 1024x768 for example.

OK, how on earth do you do something like this?  There doesn't seem 
to be much in the way of documentation, and I can't seem to find any 
way to do this.

>One thing that's added to files, if you "get info" on an item, is an 
>area called "Spotlight Comments".  It's the area just below the 
>item's icon and name.  This is an area where you can add your own 
>meta data to the item.

Now that's cool!  Now someone needs to write a program to bulk add comments.

			Zane


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