Access Spotlight comments Mac OS X

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Sat Apr 14 16:43:15 EDT 2007


> you can do that with applescript from Rev.
>
> check the following command:
>
> do As applescript.
>
> the applescript for that is something like
>
> tell application "Finder" to
>   return the comment of file "the file" of folder "the folder" of
> disk "startup disk 1"
> end tell
>
> and yes, there are easier way to reference files in applescript but I
> don't know it :-)


Applescript uses the older format for file paths which include the
drive name and where the folders are separated by colon e.g. Macintosh
HD:Users:sarah:Documents:Test.txt

Rev uses the Unix style which does not include the drive name and
where the separator is a slash e.g. /Users/sarah/Documents/Test.txt

To convert from one to the other, use the revMacFromUnixPath() or
revUnixFromMacPath() functions in Rev.

HTH,
Sarah



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