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Spotlight Importer - Category

I'm working on a Spotlight Importer which works quite nice. But I haven't been able to figure out how to display the results in their own category. As of now, they are listed under 'Documents' - (Miles Davis - Sanctuary) Any ideas on where to start…
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Adding attribute to spotlight for a system type (UTI public.audio)

I'd very want to add several more attributes (or columns in DB terms) to audio files on OSX. I've read the manual here but it states that: "Only one importer is allowed per uniform type identifiers (UTIs)." There is an identifier for public.audio…
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Spotlight plugin reading NSDocument causing "deny file-write-data" error in console

I have a sandboxed NSDocument based app with a Spotlight plugin to index my custom documents. During testing I noticed a lot of errors being logged to the console by the Spotlight plugin as it indexes a document: 5/4/15 3:11:18.765 PM sandboxd[432]:…
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Record Level Spotlight indexing with Coredata

I've read the tutorial at https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/SpotlightCoreData/Articles/recordLevel.html so many times now, I can't seem to get it for some reason. I've tried creating the spotlight importer,…
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Additional attributes for custom document type not showing in Finder Get Info

My Spotlight plugin imports a couple of attributes for a custom document format. Searching for them works just fine but I just can't get them displayed in the Finder's Get Info dialog. Here's the schema.xml (parses fine with mdcheckschema):
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Spotlight UI unable to find Core Data external record files inside Sandbox

I've followed the instructions to integrate spotlight into a non-document based Core Data application using Record-Level Indexing. The spotlight importer imports the files correctly and those records can be found using mdfind "some string". The…
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Can one Spotlight importer call another?

I have a macOS application that stores text as an HTML file inside a package (directory bundle). The system Rich Text importer already knows how to extract text from HTML files. Is there a way to write an importer for my application that calls the…
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Spotlight importer: how to hide the actual file name?

I have a Mac shoebox app with a custom data format. I'd like to add Spotlight support. From what I read, the recommendation seems to be to define a custom UTI file type and create one file of that type for each "record" in my app as a reference to…
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Spotlight and QuickLook integration

I wrote an app which document type is a bundle. This bundle contains 5 internal files, one of them is a HTML with the document "itself". I would like to make my app Spotlight and Quick Look enabled. Is there an easy way to tell the application "for…
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jQuery Spotlight Issue

Im trying to insert a jquery Spotlight snippet ( By Dev7Studios ) on my website. I have to work it out with following scenario: I mouse over on "Div A" and "Div B" gets highlight-ed. I have to work on jQuery no conflict mode. So far, the script I…
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