Re: spotlight troubles

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:57 AM, David Phillips <dfphil <at> comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble getting unison to synchronize spotlight comments. I'm following the instructions at
> http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/wiki/index.php?n=Main.UnisonFAQOSSpecific#osx
>  First I add a spotlight comment to a file using the finder on one (OS X 10.5) machine. I have checked with
mdls and the comment is in the metadata. When Unison synchronizes, it says that it transfers the .dstore
file from the directory with the file with the added comment to the second OS X 10.6 computer. Then I run the
script referenced on the webpage above on the 10.6 machine. It indicates that it has updated the relevant
file. However, the comment isn't transferred to the second computer. It isn't visible either from
getinfo or with mdls.
>  Are there any tricks or any debugging suggestions anyone who has made this work can suggest?
>  I rely on Unison and have been using it for several years very happily. Thanks for all the hard work by the
developers. I was just toying with the notion of doing some more tagging of files and thought I should check
if I can actually synchronize the comments, first. I'm glad I did.

Unfortunately, Spotlight comments are very brittle, and I have stopped
relying on this script. I've never tested it on 10.6 and I don't know
if .DS_Store files are compatible between 10.5 and 10.6. The only
suggestion I have is to look inside the .DS_Store file on the 10.6
machine and check whether it contains the comments.

Sorry I cannot be of more help,

Alan

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