Re: Spotlight importer for records

FROM : Jens Alfke
DATE : Mon Mar 03 22:59:46 2008

On 3 Mar '08, at 5:50 AM, Adam P Jenkins wrote:

> Thank you for the information.  Search Kit does allow indexing 
> arbitrary pieces of data that don't have to correspond to actual 
> files, and since Spotlight is built on top of Search Kit I thought 
> there would be some way to do the same thing.


Spotlight does use SearchKit for full-text indexing of documents, but 
not for other metadata properties (filenames, ID3 tags, PDF 
authorship, image dimensions, and whatever other custom properties an 
importer might set.) So making Spotlight work on records within files 
would require a lot of architectural changes.

It's definitely a known issue, and the Spotlight people are aware of 
its importance. I hope it'll show up in the future.

—Jens