Comments on: Answering Metadata Screencast Questions http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/ Mon, 28 May 2012 08:02:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: SteveB http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318389 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:36:34 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/02/20/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318389 So, I’m having the same problem with not being able to see tagged files by hitting the right arrow. If I QS and get to tags, hit right arrow, I see all of my tags (that’s good). But if I select one of them and right arrow again, the QS window just shakes its head at me and nothing happens (that’s bad).

On a related note (I believe) when I get a tag and ask it to ‘show files matching tag’ I don’t get a filtered list of only those files that have that tag (desired feature of this tagging business). It looks like I get a list of recently updated files.

So, would love to leverage this as I totally buy into it and started tagging things, but I’m not seeing the results displayed in the screencasts. Thanks for any belated help on this thread!

]]> By: Allan http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318388 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:46 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/02/20/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318388 well the links didn’t post in my previous comment:
http://tinyurl.com/22u43z
http://tinyurl.com/27sb74
http://tinyurl.com/yonrlr
Any thoughts or suggestions Nick?

]]> By: Allan http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318387 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:57:14 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/02/20/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318387 In researching the sustainability and cross-platform transferability of tags in spotlight comments, I came across some disconcerting information. It seems that spotlight comments are stored in the hidden .DS store file of the folder. If this does not get copied neither do the comments. Or if the destination file system cannot read these, neither can they read the spotlight comments. To further complicate things it seems that certain programs when processing the file will erase the comments. Perhaps a better method is to go with SpotMeta which actually creates new xattr in the file. Spotlight in Leopard can now read these in its search. I don’t know how other or future OSes might read them, but at least its attached to the file and not separately in the .DS store!

]]> By: Daniel http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318386 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:47:51 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/02/20/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318386 Re #4. It’s possible to set up a search to do this in Leopard. I did mine on my Documents folder like this (translated from a Swedish Leopard, so the exact wording might vary):
- Type is all
- None of the following is true
   - Spotlight comment contains §
   - Type is folders

My tag prefix is set to § and the fiddling with Type is done in order to exclude the subfolders from my search results. The first Type statement can probably be excluded. You get the boolean None statement by holding Option and clicking on the + sign when creating the search.

]]> By: [ Tagamac ] [ Some tagging resources ] http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318384 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:42:42 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/02/20/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318384 [...] Part Four: Answering Screencast Questions [...]

]]> By: flysi http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318385 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:38:45 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/02/20/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318385 I just turned off “Show children split view” in the QS Command preferences, and am now able to arrow into my tags again… weird, because I noticed that Nick had that preference turned on in his screencast.

]]> By: Jono http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318382 Wed, 23 May 2007 06:34:32 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/02/20/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318382 It’s a good idea Eleventeen. Have you suggested it at the Quicksilver forum?

]]> By: Eleventeen http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318383 Tue, 22 May 2007 21:00:24 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/02/20/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318383 I’m in the same place as Harald…I’ve been using the QS tagging method for a while, but I wish that when you tabbed to the text entry box to assign a tag that it would give you kind of a Google Suggest kind of deal. I wonder if the ObjC masters over on the Blacktree forums could work something up…

]]> By: Victor Nystad http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318381 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:36:30 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/02/20/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318381 I’ve been spending some time trying to figure out why *right-arrowing* into a tag to display files seems so unstable. It appears to be reliant on the Spotlight-plug-in, but not the extra scripts. The problem is that every time you restart Quicksilver it stops working, so to “activate” this function again you just have to select the “Catalog” section in the Quicksilver interface (cmd+;) after each restart, and then close it again. I have no idea why this works, but it does.

]]> By: Paulo Fontes http://gigaom.com/apple/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318369 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:55:41 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/02/20/answering-metadata-screencast-questions/#comment-318369 Ok, found it, just restarted QS:) LOL

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