Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Finnigan Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 17:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mac GUI Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 17:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ac9e0e4d7dd3957fb97803ee6801bab8"; logging-data="25742"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1//l47aZ+aJwx5Ap5k8VYla" User-Agent: Mac GUI Usenet In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:7y9WxMkTElwQbn59keLI7sxV7XA= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:76000 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. -- ]DF$ The Marina IP stack for Apple II-- http://marina.a2hq.com/