Timeline for What does Spotlight consider to be a 'Document'?
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| Mar 21, 2022 at 6:28 | comment | added | jksoegaard | This was about Affinity Suite documents - those files you mention are not from Affinity Suite. Some document types have importers built in to Spotlight - they do not require a separate importer. There’s no built in importer for Affinity Suite documents. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 18:40 | comment | added | benwiggy | Ah: OK, so you're saying there's a flag or some such that the developer has to specifically mark. However, there's another file that doesn't have an importer and does show up in Recents as a 'document'. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 18:30 | comment | added | jksoegaard | I’m not sure how to describe it any clearer. An importer can tell Spotlight that a file is a document. Then Spotlight reports it as a document. An importer could instead tell Spotlight that a file is something else, and then Spotlight does not report it as a document. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 17:44 | comment | added | benwiggy | I don't understand how those two sentences don't contradict each other. A file type for an app I have has an importer, but it still isn't a "document", according to Spotlight. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 17:28 | comment | added | jksoegaard | Yes, ofcourse - there’s plenty of other file types than documents: images, videos, audio, etc. This question was about why a document was not classified by Spotlight as a document - and that’s because there was no importer for it. So a document needs an importer to be classified as a document. It doesn’t mean that every format that has an importer is classified as a document. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 13:35 | comment | added | benwiggy | Actually, I've found some document types with Spotlight importers that Spotlight still doesn't describe as "Documents". | |
| May 20, 2021 at 10:13 | comment | added | jksoegaard | Thanks for the edit @benwiggy! :-) | |
| May 20, 2021 at 10:00 | vote | accept | benwiggy | ||
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| May 20, 2021 at 10:00 | history | edited | benwiggy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Revised the answer with the correct info as given in the comments.
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| May 15, 2021 at 11:30 | comment | added | benwiggy | So it's only a document if there's a Spotlight importer? Yes, that seems to fit. If you change your answer to that, I'll accept it. | |
| May 15, 2021 at 11:10 | comment | added | jksoegaard | Yes, I didn’t have time to detail it yesterday, the application also needs to define an importer for Spotlight for each format, if it is not text/RTF/PDF or similar standard format. This way the document metadata and possible also contents can be added to the Spotlight index | |
| May 15, 2021 at 8:46 | comment | added | benwiggy | I thought the bundle info might be involved. But these file formats ARE the apps' native document file types, and are listed in CFBundleDocumentTypes. Is there some other key that flags them as "Documents" for the purposes of Spotlight. | |
| May 14, 2021 at 22:07 | history | answered | jksoegaard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |