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Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there

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On 2015-06-03 17:17:18 +0000, JF Mezei said:

> On 15-06-03 00:36, isw wrote:
> 
>> a copy of *every search phrase it's possible to enter*. I'm convinced
>> that something the old camera did (wrong) when encoding the JPGs caused
>> some sort of a "wild card" that would match absolutely anything. I think
>> that's why re-encoding the files fixed things.
> 
> 
> More likely: the "save as" created a new file which triggers spotlight
> to re-index the file, at which point, it is removed from all the
> keywords that the old version of file had (by mistake).
> 
> I have also found some image files appearing for no real reason in
> spotlight searches, but always ignored it. Probably a big in the software.
> 
> Question:
> 
> If a file is allocated as 200k, but only 20k is actually written to it,
> would Spotlight's magical powers have access to the unused 180k beyond
> the end of file ? If those unused blocks contained a text with lots of
> keywords, that might explain how a image file would get intexed to match
> so many keywords.
> 
> 
> (this has to do whether disk blocks are erased upon file deletion, erase
> upon file allocation, or whether high water marking is used to prevent
> normal application from reading past the end of file. (And I suspect
> Spotlight may use lower level access to data to make it more efficient
> and might be granted access beyond end of file. Just a theory.

Doubtful...

Spotlights underlying metadata importer is informed by fseventsd that a 
file has been created or changed and the importer then updates the 
Spotlight indexes accordingly. As such, it is operating at the file 
level, not the block level.

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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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