{"id":30613,"date":"2020-11-09T20:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30613"},"modified":"2020-11-09T20:11:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:11:51","slug":"fragile-spotlight-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/09\/fragile-spotlight-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragile Spotlight Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2020\/11\/06\/finder-comments-worth-avoiding\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2020\/11\/06\/finder-comments-worth-avoiding\/\">\n<p>Finder Comments, also known as Spotlight Comments, are such a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The worst possible place you can store metadata is in a separate file, such as a hidden file of proprietary format located in the same folder. But that&rsquo;s exactly where Finder Comments are saved. Worse still, as if recognising the error of its ways, Apple duplicated them in an extended attribute (xattr), only that isn&rsquo;t kept in sync with the other copy. The end result is that Finder Comments are as reliable as loose scraps of paper, and just as easily lost.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This dichotomy is one of the reasons I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/eaglefiler\/\">EagleFiler<\/a>. I like the idea of comments so much that I wanted to remove the limitations (length, plain text, restrictive editor) and store them in a more <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/eaglefiler\/help\/add-tags-and-notes\">secure and open<\/a> way.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: Finder Comments, also known as Spotlight Comments, are such a good idea. [&#8230;] The worst possible place you can store metadata is in a separate file, such as a hidden file of proprietary format located in the same folder. But that&rsquo;s exactly where Finder Comments are saved. Worse still, as if recognising the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-11-10T01:11:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"d4e16643-9349-4ce6-bbf3-4a15efd391b2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-11-10T01:11:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A1OFmQ5NJTOa780oV79ORsg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[595,1902,458,30,1666,608],"class_list":["post-30613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-eaglefiler","tag-extended-attributes","tag-finder","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-metadata"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30615,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613\/revisions\/30615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}