[viruscool]

Running OS X 10.4.0 when this happened, then updated to 10.4.1 after.

So, I decided to make an automator plug-in to insert a comment into some certain files and folders. The comment was E3-2005-Nintendo, the plug-in worked fine for the first few days, searching for this comment brought up about 60 results. However after running the plug-in from the desktop, searching for E3-2005-Nintendo brings up 2000+ files and folders that are totaly irrelevant, these files don't even have the comment in them, nor any of those keywords in the title.

Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong, or how to fix it as it is rather annoying that searching for the word Nintendo now brings up 2000+ irrelevant files and folders.

Thanks in advance, if you need any more info just shout, but please help me

[TETENAL]

In the Terminal type mdls and a space. Then drag one of the false positve files into the Terminal and press return. You will be shown which metadata has been recorded for the file. That might give you a hint why Spotlight finds the file and what went wrong.

[Diggory Laycock]

Hmm - odd, I see what you mean:

I only have one file with a spotlight comment of nintentdo - just as a test:



Cool that it found those ROMs - but it's not what I asked for.

Perhaps you have to write a raw query to get *just* files with a spotlight comment of 'nintendo'...

[edit] - ah - I see. The authors of the ROMs had put comments in the files - that automatically became a "spotlight comment" .

Code:
kMDItemFinderComment           = "Name: Fire Demo by Lac Country: Public Domain System: Nintendo 64"

Perhaps if you want to use comments as tags - you should preface them with a special character - e.g. @

[Diggory Laycock]

also - you might like this widget:

http://www.terhech.de/tag/

[viruscool]

Well I've managed to fix the problem.

However, I am still perplexed as to why this happened, I fixed the problem by changing the plug-in to insert a blank comment over the top of the original. However it should still not be changing almost all the files on the computer, I'll show you what I mean;



As you can see, the plug-in should only add to those folders and what is in them, not anything that is outside them, correct?

So why it is adding comments to other files is beyond me.

Any ideas?