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Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there

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isw wrote:
> For some time, I was mildly annoyed because every time I did a 
> Spotlight search for a text string in a file, a bunch of JPG files 
> showed up in the results. I just assumed that the nearly random content 
> of a JPG (and I have a lot of them) sometimes had a string of bytes that 
> matched the search criteria.

Well there's EXIF tags and data too, like author and keywords and so on.



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Spotlight finds things that aren't there isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-05-28 10:19 -0700
  Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-28 13:38 -0400
    Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-05-28 17:46 +0000
      Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-28 14:05 -0400
  Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-05-28 17:37 +0000
  Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-28 13:43 -0400
    Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-05-28 21:30 -0700
      Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-06-02 07:56 -0700
        Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-06-02 10:52 -0700
          Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-06-02 13:38 -0700
            Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-06-02 21:36 -0700
              Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-06-03 13:17 -0400
                Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-06-03 10:28 -0700
                Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-06-03 21:49 -0700
  Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-05-28 16:14 -0400
    Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-28 16:25 -0400
    Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-05-28 21:27 -0700
      Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there -- solution, sort of isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-05-30 21:26 -0700
        Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there -- solution, sort of JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-31 03:12 -0400
          Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there -- solution, sort of isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-05-31 20:52 -0700
      Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there -- Follow-on question isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-05-30 21:38 -0700
        Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there -- Follow-on question Jim Gibson <JimSGibson@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 22:25 -0700
          Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there -- Follow-on question isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-06-01 09:34 -0700
            Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there -- Follow-on question Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2015-06-01 19:08 -0700

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