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Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there

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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?

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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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