--- title: "SpotMeta fixes Spotlight for OS X Tiger" date: 2005-11-01T19:32:48-05:00 url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/11/01/spotmeta-fixes-spotlight-for-os-x-tiger/ author: Les Orchard tags: [asides, osx, spotlight, tiger, spotmeta] --- # SpotMeta fixes Spotlight for OS X Tiger I just realized that I've been remiss and have yet to mention [Ben Summers' SpotMeta][sm]. Remember when I was [grousing about the disconnect between Spotlight and HFS Extended Attributes][gr]? [SpotMeta][sm] fixes this disconnect. [SpotMeta][sm] allows you to set pretty much any arbitrary name/value pairs on any file, to be indexed and searchable by Spotlight. Furthermore, it provides GUI tools and Finder integration to make it all usable in practical day-to-day work. I haven't had time to spend playing with it much or to figure out exactly how it works, but I think the possibilities are just beginning for this fine hack. Will it realize the promise I saw in BeFS for a filesystem/database hybrid? [sm]: http://www.fluffy.co.uk/spotmeta/ [gr]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/10/blosxom-tiger-and-spotlight