> Well, I don't think the search locations were documented yet when I
> wrote the Spotlight code, and I recall having a lot of trouble
> getting it to work. I used ~/Library/Caches/Metadata based on a
> suggestion from one of the Spotlight engineers:
>
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/spotlight-dev/2005/Jun/msg00022.html
Yes, this sounds familiar to me as well. I only discovered this very
recently. We default to Caches as well in UnicodeChecker. I don’t
think I could ever find information on this in the proper Spotlight
documentation.
> Does stuff in ~/Library/Metadata get backed up by Time Machine? The
> difficulty with switching now, though, would be duplicate
> results...so ~/Library/Caches/Metadata would have to be cleared out
> when saving.
Yeah, migrating this won’t be fun.
A quick test suggests that ~/Library/Metadata makes it into backups.
Sven
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