On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Michael A. Alderete <[email protected]> wrote: > But not impossible, Spotlight has something BFS never did, per-file-type > importers. Save the files with the right file extension, create a custom > importer for the files, and the appropriate attributes should be created by > Spotlight. (At least, that's how I understand it.)
Spotlight has its own databases/indexes stored in a central location (/.Spotlight-V100/...) and that is what Spotlight importers end up writing to. Mac OS X also supports extended attributes for individual files stored in the filesystem itself, but unlike in BFS, those are not indexed in the filesystem. The closest match to the BeMail system on Mac OS X would be for the mail fetcher daemon to parse the messages and write to/from/subject/etc. information to extended attributes for each email message file, then have the Spotlight importer for this file type simply read the extended attributes (rather than having to parse the entire message again) and index them in the centrally stored Spotlight database. -John _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
