[X4U] Can one convert OS 9 comments to OS X comments?

[John Richardson]

Hello,

What is needed is an adherence to international standards for metadata. The
real question is what tools exist for implementing the standards.

John F. Richardson

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[mailto:x4u-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com]On Behalf Of Neil
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [X4U] Can one convert OS 9 comments to OS X comments?


on 12/6/05 11:49 AM, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:

>> Except they're not called Finder comments anymore,
>> they're called Spotlight Comments
>
> Yet another indication that Apple released half-baked software with Tiger.
> To advertise Finder comments by putting them in the "Spotlight" of their
> grand new search engine implies to the user that this is a good place to
> store metadata for a file. Only to find these metadata gone with the next
cp
> or mv and probably rsync etc., too. Not good.

I'm glad you mentioned this.  I have hundreds of video clips on my Mac and I
add more all the time.  I was planning to use the spotlight comments field
to store metadata about these video files.  That way, I could write a
detailed description and find files by searching Spotlight.  I guess I
better rethink that plan.

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