[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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