On May 4, 2005, at 12:07 AM, Lee Morgan wrote:
> Sorry this is more Spotlight related than Cocoa, but seeing that
> there's no Spotlight mailing list, and my app is Cocoa based - I
> guess this is the closest I get.
>
file a bug (and send me the number) or mail DTS and express your
interest in a Spotlight mailing list. Please..
> I realize that the new HFS Extended Attributes are not exposed to
> the higher level API's yet, and also that Spotlight doesn't extract
> their contents during indexing. However I'm working on a
> application that would greatly benefit from Spotlight indexing this
> information. Is it possible to write a Spotlight importer that
> handles every file with out it interfering with other plug-ins? So
> that I can extract the extended attributes and add it to the
> Spotlight store.
No, this isn't currently possible to my knowledge.
> If not, any recommendation on an alternative solution? I need to
> store user specified meta data with any given file. I've considered
> using the extended attributes and just creating my own index of
> them, however this means during a search that I would have to
> perform two searches - one for Spotlight and then from those
> results form another for my own extended attributes (or vise-versa,
> which would probably be faster come to think of it).
Solved your own problem.. excellent! :-)
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