Thanks for your reply Matt. I have been looking about all the problems with using Spotlight (including this problem) and am thinking that formulating a UNIX find command would probably be easier. Please comment back with any thoughts about this idea.
On 3/29/09 12:51 PM, "Matt Neuburg" <m...@tidbits.com> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:31:01 -0700, Pierce Freeman > <piercefreema...@comcast.net> said: >> Hi everyone. >> >> I have been looking into a way to search the user's hard drive for a files >> and have settled on Spotlight. I will say ahead of time that if anyone has >> a better way to search for files that are in changing places, I would love >> to hear about it! > > Well, a user can accidentally or intentionally put a file in a place where > Spotlight is blind (either because it is hard-wired not to look there, or > because it is one of the places designated in the user's Spotlight Privacy > prefs), and then you are SOL. Whereas, if a file is moving around the same > hard drive, an alias (once formed) always works. m. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
