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Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved

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On 2015-01-25, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
>
> In older versions of OS X, Spotlight comments associated with a file 
> were stored, not in the file itself, but in the .DS_Store file of the 
> folder containing the file. (Open the .DS_Store file in a text editor to 
> see them).
>
> Somewhere around 10.4 or .5, the comments started being stored in the 
> extended attributes of the file. This solved a problem with the previous 
> method, where it was all too easy to move a file and lose the comments. 
> (Run <xattr -l> on the file to see a comment, if there is one).
>
> Presumably, after the change, apps that write Spotlight comments were 
> modified to put the comments in *both* places, to assure backwards 
> compatibility (??).

*sigh* Whoever came up with the complete mess that is DS_Store should be
locked in a dungeon until it is vanquished from Mac OS X for good, IMO. 

Thanks for the follow-up post.

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Problems with Spotlight comments isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-01-22 21:51 -0800
  Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-01-24 21:48 -0800
    Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-25 14:55 +0000
      Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-25 12:05 -0800
        Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-25 15:42 -0500
          Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-25 21:00 +0000
            Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-25 13:48 -0800
              Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-25 22:08 +0000

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