On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:26 AM, Dan wrote: > I'm thinking maybe Spotlight is falling into some abyss in its index, caused > by bad processing of these corrupted jpegs. > > Any ideas on how to find 'em?
Another thought, generate a list of files with the .jpg or .jpeg extension on the mac with the find command (do it as sudo to get every one: sudo find / -name *.jpg -print | sort > listofjpegs.txt And do an mdfind command for the same from your index, man mdfind gives you some hints, man mdimport gives you the list of attributes. Then you can do a diff on the two lists to find ones on one list and not the other, either in the command line or via a text editor like bbedit or textwrangler (I know TW does this, I've done it before.) -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
