On 22 Apr 2009, at 04:30, Jeremy W. Sherman wrote:
getxattr(2) will directly access the current on-disk attribute
value. Why
not just use it as Alastair suggested?
I suppose it is worth mentioning that getxattr() won't work as a way
of getting the Finder information if the drive you're usi
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> Can you point to any official documentation for the Finder comment xattr
> name?
>
No, I cannot, beyond a support article which relies on the fact (
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25203?viewlocale=en_US).
I don't really want to be sending apple events to the finder since this is
> a background
On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:30 PM, Jeremy W. Sherman wrote:
getxattr(2) will directly access the current on-disk attribute
value. Why
not just use it as Alastair suggested?
Can you point to any official documentation for the Finder comment
xattr name? The storage for it has changed before, so
getxattr(2) will directly access the current on-disk attribute value. Why
not just use it as Alastair suggested?
—Jeremy
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Chris Idou wrote:
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> I don't really want to be sending apple events to the finder since this is
> a background app, and it could be callin
I don't really want to be sending apple events to the finder since this is a
background app, and it could be calling it fairly frequently, and I believe
this can impact the user's foreground use of Finder.
Does anybody know what the issue is? Mostly the synchronization between Finder
Comments
On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Chris Idou wrote:
I've got a program which uses MDItemCopyAttribute to get the
kMDItemFinderComment, and I was playing around testing it, by changing
the value in the Finder and seeing if the value changed in my
program, and they ended up out of synch. It ends up
On 21 Apr 2009, at 13:04, Chris Idou wrote:
I've got a program which uses MDItemCopyAttribute to get the
kMDItemFinderComment, and I was playing around testing it, by changing
the value in the Finder and seeing if the value changed in my
program, and they ended up out of synch. It ends up tha
I've got a program which uses MDItemCopyAttribute to get the
kMDItemFinderComment, and I was playing around testing it, by changing
the value in the Finder and seeing if the value changed in my program, and they
ended up out of synch. It ends up that mdls returns a different value than
xattr -
