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Re: Spotlight finds things that aren't there -- Follow-on question

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isw <isw@witzend.com> writes:

> In article <310520152225584255%JimSGibson@gmail.com>,
>  Jim Gibson <JimSGibson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > In article <isw-72B81D.21383130052015@news-roam.garlic.com>, isw
> > <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > When I was trying to learn why Spotlight was "finding" all those JPG  
> > > files, I discovered that not only the offending files, but a huge 
> > > percentage of all the image files I have, have the "execute" bits set:
> > > 
> > > -rwxrwxrwx@
> > > 
> > > My guess is that the affected files are ones that originated in a 
> > > digital camera (scanned images are not so afflicted), and that were 
> > > never edited (using Photoshop, GIMP, or Preview, mostly).
> > > 
> > > Given that, I have a suspicion that the execute bits are being set as a 
> > > result of the use of FAT- file systems on the memory cards that digital 
> > > cameras use. Editing the image and saving clears them (I guess).
> > > 
> > > But however it happened, the question is: Do I Care?
> > > 
> > > And if it is something that should be fixed, what's an easy way to do 
> > > that, over a pile of folders and a bigger pile of files?
> > 
> > The easy way is to use command lines from within the Terminal
> > application. Check out the 'find' and 'chmod' commands:
> > 
> >   man find
> >   man chmod
> > 
> > Something like this (untested):
> > 
> >   find . -name \*.jpg -exec chmod -x {} \;
> > 
> > Test this on a single file in a single folder:
> > 
> >   cd myfolder
> >   find . -name mytest.jpg -exec chmod -x {} \:
> > 
> > and see if it does what you want. Then apply it to a whole folder using
> > the first version. Then all of your folders by executing it at the
> > top-level directory that is the parent of all of your folders and
> > files.
> 
> Thanks. I generally subscribe to the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", 
> and also to the "Make sure you're actually fixing what is broken and not 
> just putting a band-aid on it" philosophies of engineering, so before I 
> do something to hundreds of files, I'd still like to know why those bits 
> got set (on virtually every unedited digital camera file on my Mac), and 
> if it matters whether those files think they are executables.
> 
> Isaac

It doesn't matter one bit (!) whether those files are marked as
executables.  (And for the record, those files can't think.)

Martin

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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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