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Re: Search IDL content with Spotlight (Mac OS X) [message #45300 is a reply to message #45298]

Wed, 31 August 2005 13:37

jm
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Registered: April 2003

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I think that IDL indexes files primarily by type, or at least filename.
I tried the following:

ln -s foo.pro foo.txt

No effect - Spotlight doesn't pick-up on the file contents. However,

cp foo.pro foo.txt

results in a file (foo.txt) that Spotlight has indexed (instantly).
Evidently, the recognition that Spotlight uses in this instance is
based entirely on the file name. What's more, it's needs to be a copy
rather than a link (even if the soft-link worked, that would hardly be
an elegant solution).

So, it would seem that we need some way to force Spotlight to seek out
*.pro files, but I can't see any way of doing that.

-John Mardaljevic

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[Message index]

		Re: Search IDL content with Spotlight (Mac OS X) By: jm on Wed, 31 August 2005 15:00
		Re: Search IDL content with Spotlight (Mac OS X) By: jm on Wed, 31 August 2005 13:37
		Re: Search IDL content with Spotlight (Mac OS X) By: K. Bowman on Wed, 31 August 2005 09:11
		Re: Search IDL content with Spotlight (Mac OS X) By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 31 August 2005 06:47
		Re: Search IDL content with Spotlight (Mac OS X) By: mperrin+news on Wed, 31 August 2005 16:02
		Re: Search IDL content with Spotlight (Mac OS X) By: K. Bowman on Wed, 31 August 2005 15:06

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