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10.4: Use Automator to batch add Spotlight comments
Authored by: Tom Robinson on May 17, '05 07:45:08PM

Spotlight comments seem to be the old Get Info comments renamed and the same under the covers: i.e Retrospect and StuffIt don't save them, and the Finder loses them on a fairly regular basis.

They're stored somewhere external to the file, not the resource fork, hence their transient nature (under OS 9 it was somewhere in the file metadata, OS X it's in the .DS_Store files).

Pity. I've always liked them but they never stick around.

Where possible I now store comments in the files themselves (IPTC data for photos, document properties for NeoOffice/J), or in small text files.



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