Re: Time to change the data store to play with time machine?
Doug, The types of Core Data stores currently available are XML, SQLite, Custom Atomic, and In Memory (which must be binary) on Wikipedia. The XML store is best used for debugging since it's just a text file that is human readable. It could be used for storing small amounts of data, but it would be far too slow for storing the web, PDF, and image data that Yojimbo is capable of. The In Memory store would solve your large Time Machine backups since none of your data would be backed up (since all your Yojimbo data would be in RAM), but every time you quit Yojimbo you'd lose all your data. Again, not a good choice. The downside of the Custom Atomic store (and also the XML format) is that by atomic Apple means that every time a change is saved to the Core Data store, the entire object graph is rewritten to the store. Again, for large Yojimbo databases this would be impractical. SQLite offers MUCH better performance than XML or a Custom Atomic store, and also offers partial updates so when something is added, removed, or changed in your Yojimbo library the entire object graph doesn't have to be rewritten to disk, only what has changed. With how cheap disk space is these days, I'd rather the developers at Bare Bones focus on adding more great features instead of writing a custom Core Data store or worry about storing Yojimbo items as individual files. - Steve On Apr 5, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Doug Ransom wrote: Core Data can serialize objects into XML, Binary, or SQLite for storage. With the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, developers can also create their own custom atomic store types. . Any application to the problem at hand? -- Steven Huey Software - http://www.stevenhuey.com -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ANN] Yojimbo Tag Cleanup
I debugged this a bit with Doug's help and it appears his Spotlight index was out of sync with Yojimbo. Yojimbo Tag Cleanup basically does the following: 1. Using AppleScript asks Yojimbo for a list of all tags 2. For each tag it calls the mdfind command as: mdfind -count keyword:TAG kind:yojimbo item 3. List all the tags whose count was 0 as returned from the mdfind command Doug provided an example where he had a note tagged as backup, and yet the mdfind command was returning a count of 0 for that note. He re- added the tag and the mdfind command then returned a non-zero count, as expected. Other than iterating through each database item using AppleScript and searching manually through it's list of tags to find abandoned tags, does anyone have any other AppleScript suggestions for how to find unused tags? Or any ideas why his Spotlight index wasn't up to date with Yojimbo's tags? Thanks, Steve From: Douglas Stetner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 30, 2008 6:42:09 AM EDT Subject: Re: [ANN] Yojimbo Tag Cleanup Steven, I have posted you an example of it incorrectly showing a used tag as deletable. On 28/03/2008, at 07:35, Steven Huey wrote: I just posted a simple app that displays a list of your Yojimbo tags that aren't assigned to any of your Yojimbo database items, and then lets you delete those tags. It's kind of a hack, and is a mix of Cocoa, AppleScript, and some calls to mdfind using NSTask, but it works well for me and saves a lot of time compared to how I used to do it by hand. -- Steven Huey Software - http://www.stevenhuey.com
Re: [ANN] Yojimbo Tag Cleanup
Steve,
That works perfectly - thanks! I'll update the app to use that instead
of mdfind. I'll send out another announcement when I've got it running.
- Steve
On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Steve Kalkwarf wrote:
Other than iterating through each database item using AppleScript
and searching manually through it's list of tags to find abandoned
tags, does anyone have any other AppleScript suggestions for how to
find unused tags? Or any ideas why his Spotlight index wasn't up to
date with Yojimbo's tags?
tell application Yojimbo
set everyTag to every tag
set emptyTags to {}
repeat with aTag in everyTag
if (count of (every database item whose tags contains aTag))
is 0 then
set emptyTags to emptyTags {contents of aTag}
end if
end repeat
end tell
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[ANN] Yojimbo Tag Cleanup 1.1
I just released Yojimbo Tag Cleanup 1.1 that uses the AppleScript Steve Kalkwarf provided for finding abandoned tags instead of the mdfind command. If you downloaded 1.0, I really recommend downloading the new version since it's much more reliable. Thanks again to Doug Stetner and Steve Kalkwarf for all their help. Weblog Entry: http://stevenhuey.com/projects/yojimbo-tag-cleanup-11 Download Page: http://stevenhuey.com/yojimbo-tag-cleanup - Steve -- Steven Huey Software - http://www.stevenhuey.com -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ANN] Yojimbo Tag Cleanup
I just posted a simple app that displays a list of your Yojimbo tags that aren't assigned to any of your Yojimbo database items, and then lets you delete those tags. It's kind of a hack, and is a mix of Cocoa, AppleScript, and some calls to mdfind using NSTask, but it works well for me and saves a lot of time compared to how I used to do it by hand. It requires Yojimbo 1.5 or newer, and Spotlight indexing of your Yojimbo database. It's a Universal Binary, and I've tested it on Mac OS X 10.5.2 running on an Intel Mac. I'm releasing it as free, use at your own risk. If you've got a large Yojimbo library or use a lot of tags it may take a few seconds to open while it figures out which tags aren't being used. I hope someone else finds it useful too. http://stevenhuey.com/?page_id=10 - Steve -- Steven Huey Software - http://www.stevenhuey.com -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
