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Do spotlight comments travel with files?
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Hi, does anyone know if spotlight keywords and comments stay with a file if you email it/back it up to cd/ use it on a different mac?
"Classic" lables and comments did , but i was worried that if all that stuff is now held in a local database then it isn't really "attached" to the file?
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As far as I know spotlight comments *are* the old Finder comments, just renamed and made blue.
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Originally Posted by Catfish_Man
As far as I know spotlight comments *are* the old Finder comments, just renamed and made blue.
Thanks!
I mailed myself a file and the comments didn't survive, i wrote it to a usb drive and they did (but it created an invisible spotlight cache on the drive)
i copied it to the same drive with pathfinder, the comment didn't make it.
I'm going to take a wild guess that burning files to disk through anything other than the finder will strip off the spotlight data too!
i miss resource forks 
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in order to retain Spotlight comments in the file you would have to put it in a .dmg image before burning.
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Originally Posted by CKr
in order to retain Spotlight comments in the file you would have to put it in a .dmg image before burning.
aha!
that might work for mailing too, i'll give it a go , thanks
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Originally Posted by step
i miss resource forks
The Finder comment was never stored in the resource fork. In the classic days it was stored in the Desktop Database. Buring with anything else but the Finder would have stripped the comment too. And in System 7 rebuilding the Desktop Database (which had to be done regularly) zapped all the comments. That made comments pretty useless.
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Which of course spawned a cottage industry of programs to save the comments across rebuilds, and that was later built into Mac OS (I think it was with Mac OS 8.5 or so).
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
The Finder comment was never stored in the resource fork. In the classic days it was stored in the Desktop Database. Buring with anything else but the Finder would have stripped the comment too. And in System 7 rebuilding the Desktop Database (which had to be done regularly) zapped all the comments. That made comments pretty useless.
ah! you're right of course, i was getting mixed up with custom icons!
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