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I have what strikes me as a bizarre, inconsistent, yet hair-pullingly frustrating problem with the Spotlight Comments field that pops up in a file's Get Info window.
Specifically, a project I like to plink around on is plowing through the archives of the Astronomy Picture of the Day website (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html), downloading pix that interest me, and then filing away the descriptions as metadata in the Spotlight Comments field. I quickly discovered that failing to hit Enter after pasting the text would make the text disappear. However, after downloading and adding comments to several hundred pix this way, I was randomly scrolling through my file of astropix with the "constant info window" (I forget the technical name for this - it's what you get by pressing cmd+option+I instead of just cmd+I) open and noticed that all the metadata I had so carefully squirreled away had disappeared! Oh, no!
I immediately suspected that something was fishy in the way OS X was saving the Spotlight metadata. Specifically, on my home computer in which I was doing this project, my wife is constantly logging in on her account (sometimes logging me out, sometimes just doing a user switch), so that when I sit down to do some work I have to log back in/switch over to my account.
So I downloaded a few more pix, added some comments, and logged out and back in again. The data is still there.
So I'm mystified. What happened to all my metadata???
Specifically, a project I like to plink around on is plowing through the archives of the Astronomy Picture of the Day website (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html), downloading pix that interest me, and then filing away the descriptions as metadata in the Spotlight Comments field. I quickly discovered that failing to hit Enter after pasting the text would make the text disappear. However, after downloading and adding comments to several hundred pix this way, I was randomly scrolling through my file of astropix with the "constant info window" (I forget the technical name for this - it's what you get by pressing cmd+option+I instead of just cmd+I) open and noticed that all the metadata I had so carefully squirreled away had disappeared! Oh, no!
I immediately suspected that something was fishy in the way OS X was saving the Spotlight metadata. Specifically, on my home computer in which I was doing this project, my wife is constantly logging in on her account (sometimes logging me out, sometimes just doing a user switch), so that when I sit down to do some work I have to log back in/switch over to my account.
So I downloaded a few more pix, added some comments, and logged out and back in again. The data is still there.
So I'm mystified. What happened to all my metadata???