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Mess of Metadata

There was a long series of comments at the article about mdfind that got very confused talking about OS X metadata. I thought I'd try to straighten some of that out in a separate post - though honestly I'm still easily confused myself!

First, what metadata are we talking about? For an old Unix hand, the metadata is information stored in the inode: file size, permissions, pointers to datablocks, link counts. that's traditional metadata.

Babel: choice mac os. However, there's more metadata today - not just in Unix systems, but especially in Mac OS X. There are extended permissions, acl's, xattributes, Spotlight related metadata. it's very hard to ferret all this out of Google because similar terms are used for dissimilar features.

Macs had 'resource forks' early on. OS X still has resource forks. but apparently Apple would like to move away from those. That's probably why things get so darn confusing: search for information on metadata and OS X and you'll find lots of pointers to things that talk about resource forks, but usually that's deprecated and doesn't usually apply to OS X.

Let's take Spotlight metadata first. These are specific keys that Spotlight indexes. For example, you can do things like this:

How does Spotlight get the info to index? It asks an Spotlight Importer. This BASICS OF SPOTLIGHT page explains:

OK, great, but where does the metadata that the importer supplies come from? Apparently, that's up to the developer. Apple's Extracting Metadata from Documents says:

I want to quibble a little: if it's stored in the data file, it's really not metadata, is it? But never mind. Some apps do it that way. For example, ID3 tags. But other apps do not. For example. In my ~/Library/Caches/Metadata I found some interesting stuff. *Some* apps store Spotlight metadata there. I found:

If I look in Billings, I find this:

But obviously not all apps store their Spotlight related metadata there. Entourage does, as seen in this HOW DOES ENTOURAGE WORK WITH SPOTLIGHT? bit:

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But there's no iTunes folder there. Ld46: attack on dungeon mac os.

There are also defaults. Oyster wars mac os. Lombardis world mac os. If I create a text file with 'date > file', an 'mdls' will show Spotlight keys:

Obviously the 'date' command didn't create those. Spotlight won't even index that file (no extension), but it has some default keys just the same! See Spotlight, mdfind (Mac OS X Tiger searching) for more on that. The art of shattering mac os.

You can add metadata yourself and can modify one item of Spotlight's domain.

The only Spotlight related data you can modify is kMDItemFinderComment. You do that with GetInfo and after adding it, xattr shows this:

Note that this gives us the clue as to where the data was stored, but I don't find a file with that 'com.apple.metadata' name. I do find:

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But those aren't related.

So what do we know? Well, we know it's up to the application responsible for a file to provide importer code. It's up to the same app to decide where to store metadata. Obviously, that implies that for some data that would be the across all files of this type, there's no need to store it anywhere - the importer could generate the response when Spotlight asks.

That's as far as I've gone. maybe someone else can add more.

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