10.4: Use Spotlight as a quick and dirty database

Oct 18, '05 05:56:00AM

Contributed by: dzurn

Tiger only hintSpotlight does not index network volumes, so in a workgroup environment where all the 'interesting' documents are on a network volume, it's not very useful. However, since Spotlight will index the contents of files on your hard drive, we can leverage this in a brute-force kluge to get some information on our interesting documents or phone lists.

I want to eventually set up an Automator workflow, or a folder action, to let me know when I need to update my crude indexes, but this can give a nice snapshot of what's what, especially useful for archived or infrequently accessed items.

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