On May 17, 2010, at 5:12 PM, sclough wrote:
> 1. For applications, I'm using kind:app . However, it also indexes a
> lot of .jar file (Java programs). How can I say kind:app but name !
> = .jar or kind != .jar in order to exclude files that I don't want
> listed in the catalog?
This is the “noise” I referred to in my other post. Use “kMDItemKind ==
Application”. Don't ask me why that gives different results.
> 2. I'm trying to replicate recent items by creating a catalog for
> items opened today and yesterday. How do I combine the date:today and
> date:yesterday into one query AND how do I exclude email messages.
> It's including emails in the catalog and I don't want them included.
Looks like you solved this, but for future reference, you can test various
searches on the command-line (in Terminal). Just do something like this
mdfind "test thing"
until you get the results you're looking for.
> 3. Finally, to index documents how do I tell spotlight to include
> files under a certain directory. For example, everything in home, or
> everything in documents, etc?
I'm pretty sure the Spotlight catalogue code just calls the `mdfind` command,
so you can use any of its options. So adding " -onlyin /Users/blah/Documents"
after your search query should restrict it. Again, you can test that option on
the command-line until you get the desired result.
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