Actually it is possible, at least according to the OSXBook, to add
arbitrary key-value paired metadata to a file (IIRC, all MDItem keys
share a flat namespace). It theoretically works without Spotlight, but
nothing uses metadata that doesn't use Spotlight currently, AFAIK, and
my data isn't anything that would be meaningful to anything or anyone
outside of my app. It really is data rather than metadata.
On Apr 23, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:
Coincidentally I just went through that same song and dance. With
Spotlight becoming more and more important in OSX, it is surprising
Apple has not provided a clean method to store arbitrary metadata
with any kind of file. Maybe time for us all to file an enhancement
request.
With metadata becoming more and more important in daily use it would
be great if a platform independent way of storing metadata would be
devised. But I am not holding my breath. In the mean time we all
muddle along with our individual solutions...
Another, though related, issue is that spotlight importers still can
not be cascaded. Even just adding a few simple fields of metadata to
an existing file format means one has to re-implement the importer
for that format from scratch, no way of 'sub-classing' existing
importers.
Off-topic, but amen!
-Dan
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