On 29 Jun 2007, at 5:10 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Jun 29, 2007, at 03:08, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 29 Jun 2007, at 11:33 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29 Jun 2007, at 11:00 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I want to specify the type I want to search for in
>>>>>> Spotlight -
>>>>>> what's the correct type for an item in Bibdesk?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can find the type "Bibtex" but that will turn up only the
>>>>>> databases.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Niels
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure if this is set automatically, we don't seem to give a
>>>>> type for Spotlight. Maybe you can try "BibDesk Item". Probably
>>>>> Adam
>>>>> knows more about this.
>>>>
>>>> You can choose all available types via the spotlight-search in
>>>> Finder
>>>> (cmd+f; Kind: choose others and you get the complete list - that's
>>>> the way I found "BibTex" as type) and there's nothing like "BibDesk
>>>> Item"
>>>>
>>>> Niels
>>>
>>> Perhaps the list of known types is not fully updated. It builds
>>> dynamically anyway, and takes quite a long time for me.
>
> It never stops for me, and keeps autocompleting random items. Finder
> usually crashes before it finds the type I'm looking for (that bug
> report was a duplicate).
>
>>> Also, the
>>> type "BibTeX" is not from BibDesk, I guess it is declared by a tex
>>> editor. So probably it's not declared explicitly as a Spotlight type
>>> either. So that means also "BibDesk Item" should work. Anyway, /If/
>>> you can search for the type, that's the type. If that does not work,
>>> you can't. I failed to test this, as Finder's search sucks big time
>>> (the only thing I can get out of it is a long beach ball).
>
> Finder's search on 10.4 has an absolute value < 0.
>
>> Well, on the terminal I can kinda restrict it if I use something like
>> this:mdfind "kMDItemKeywords == 'Japan'cd" && "kMDItemKeywords ==
>> 'Politics'cd"
>>
>> (restriction works because the type "kMDItemKeywords" is BibDesk-
>> specific.
>> Btw. I mixed up "Type" and "Kind" - I want to search for the "Kind"
>> Bibdesk Item
>> Interestingly if I search via the menubar-spotlight-search "kind"
>> doesn't seem to work as expected while it works via the Finder.
>>
>
> In Terminal, run mdls on one of the .bdskcache files in ~/Library/
> Caches/Metadata/edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk, and look for
> kMDItemKind, but I think Christiaan is correct (I see something
> different on Leopard). Also, kMDItemKeywords is not BibDesk-
> specific. We have specific keys (Cite key, for instance), but they'll
> be prefixed with net_sourceforge_bibdesk in Terminal.
>
> -- adam
OK, I see it now. It's "Publication". "BibTeX" and "Publication" are
the localized versions of our document types ("bibTeX database" and
"BibDesk Item" respectively). And this is set automatically from the
UTI. So if you search for kMDItemKind == 'Publication', it should work.
As an aside, kMDItemType would be
"net.sourceforge.bibdesk.bdskcache", but that does not seem to be set.
What do you see on Leopard (if that's not NDA)?
Christiaan
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