On 2013 Jul 31, at 08:45, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote: > what are the recommended search facilities for searching for things not > indexed by Spotlight? Or am I limited to task wrappers or NSFileManager > directory enumerations? Clearly that could take a lot of time and resources > to search that way.
Several years ago I looked into this and concluded that the fastest, *reliable* file search on Mac OS X was still the ancient PBCatalogSearchSync() or PBCatalogSearchAsync(). Does anyone know a more modern API which can beat these? If not, you can still use my Cocoa wrapper… http://github.com/jerrykrinock/ClassesObjC/blob/master/SSYCarbonSearcher.m Demo project… http://github.com/jerrykrinock/SSYCarbonSearcher _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
