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Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there

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On 2015-06-02 17:52:11 +0000, isw said:

> In article <mkkg7r$b00$1@news.datemas.de>,
>  Alan Baker <email@domain.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2015-05-29 04:30:28 +0000, isw said:
>> 
>>> In article <556753ac$0$46925$c3e8da3$aae71a0a@news.astraweb.com>,
>>> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 15-05-28 13:19, 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Just a theory: could your jpg files contain exif data (comments) that
>>>> contain the searched strings ?
>>> 
>>> No. I looked.
>>> 
>>>> Or perhaps those .jpgs are highly embarassing and the OS knows it and
>>>> wants to embarass you by always presenting them to you and anyone who
>>>> might be looking over your shoulders :-)
>>> 
>>> One was a photo of an Altair 8800 board I sold on eBay; the other was a
>>> photo of a paper tape containing a Cromemco Z-80 monitor routine.
>>> 
>>> Should I be embarrassed?
>>> 
>>> Isaac
>> 
>> Can you do an "mdls" command on the file using Terminal and then pipe
>> the results to grep them against the string that produce it as a result?
> 
> I could, but I don't think it would prove anything -- it wasn't one
> string, it was *every* string I searched with, that delivered the same
> set of JPGs in the result. Something else was going on.

"Prove anything"? Probably not.

Show some things that might be of interest? Well, you won't know that 
until you try:

In the Terminal:

mdls <fullPathnameOfFile> | grep <stringYouTypedInSpotlightSearchBox>

> 
> As I said in another post, recoding the images (I made very minor
> adjustments in Preview, and then did a "Save as" seems to have solved
> the problem.
> 
> Isaac

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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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