toxicsoftware.com » Misc http://toxicsoftware.com RANDOMIZE USR 0 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:12:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Spotlight doesn’t index empty files http://toxicsoftware.com/spotlight_doesnt_index_empty_files/ http://toxicsoftware.com/spotlight_doesnt_index_empty_files/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:27:42 +0000 schwa Well it’s kind of obvious. But Spotlight can’t or won’t hand a file with a zero byte resource fork to a custom Spotlight importer.

I need to investigate if it is smart enough to consider a resource fork (or the 10.4 xattr metadata), I’ll post more on that later.

I found this because I was testing an importer I’ve written by “touching” a test a file and wondering why the heck my importer wasn’t being triggered.

However mdls will display the file system “virtual” metadata for a file.

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