Search options
I have two questions. The simple one, if a file is invisible to the user but was previously visible (say renamed with a . prefix) can it still be found by NSMetadataQuery searches? The more open ended one, what are the recommended search facilities for searching for things not indexed by Spotlight? Or am I limited to task wrappers or NSFileManager directory enumerations? Clearly that could take a lot of time and resources to search that way. Thanks JJ ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Search options
On 2013 Jul 31, at 08:45, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote: what are the recommended search facilities for searching for things not indexed by Spotlight? Or am I limited to task wrappers or NSFileManager directory enumerations? Clearly that could take a lot of time and resources to search that way. Several years ago I looked into this and concluded that the fastest, *reliable* file search on Mac OS X was still the ancient PBCatalogSearchSync() or PBCatalogSearchAsync(). Does anyone know a more modern API which can beat these? If not, you can still use my Cocoa wrapper… http://github.com/jerrykrinock/ClassesObjC/blob/master/SSYCarbonSearcher.m Demo project… http://github.com/jerrykrinock/SSYCarbonSearcher ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Search options
Le 31 juil. 2013 à 18:52, Jerry Krinock je...@ieee.org a écrit : On 2013 Jul 31, at 08:45, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote: what are the recommended search facilities for searching for things not indexed by Spotlight? Or am I limited to task wrappers or NSFileManager directory enumerations? Clearly that could take a lot of time and resources to search that way. Several years ago I looked into this and concluded that the fastest, *reliable* file search on Mac OS X was still the ancient PBCatalogSearchSync() or PBCatalogSearchAsync(). Does anyone know a more modern API which can beat these? I don't know about modern API, but I know about low level way to query the FS: searchfs(3) I think you can achieve performances equivalent to what you get using PBCatalogSearchSync using this function. -- Jean-Daniel ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Search options
On Jul 31, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: On 2013 Jul 31, at 08:45, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote: what are the recommended search facilities for searching for things not indexed by Spotlight? Or am I limited to task wrappers or NSFileManager directory enumerations? Clearly that could take a lot of time and resources to search that way. Several years ago I looked into this and concluded that the fastest, *reliable* file search on Mac OS X was still the ancient PBCatalogSearchSync() or PBCatalogSearchAsync(). Does anyone know a more modern API which can beat these? I haven't worked with it, but I think that the searchfs() system call is what underlies those routines at the BSD/POSIX layer. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/searchfs.2.html Regards, Ken ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Search options
On 2013 Jul 31, at 11:29, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: I haven't worked with it, but I think that the searchfs() system call is what underlies those routines at the BSD/POSIX layer. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/searchfs.2.html Interesting. This was my first time looking at searchfs(), but it's deja vu of PBCatalogSearchSync() or PBCatalogSearchAsync(), especially the crazy structs / parameter blocks. And yes, the PBCatalogSearch stuff does seem to be the *higher* level API, because they feature the asynchronous flavor, which searchfs() does not. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
