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Obtaining the directory of a hard drive from Spotlight
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<blockquote data-quote="morseldoc" data-source="post: 1633258" data-attributes="member: 341335"><p>Sorry, meant to say "dig?" I have some backups of an external four-partition 160 GB HD that crashed about six months ago. The cost to repair is so great, that I wanted to see first what, if anything, I had there that I needed and was ONLY there. Since my external HD is only used plugged into one of my macs and since spotlight is always indexing it, I figured I ought to be able to use the data in Spotlight to recreate a directory listing of my files and see what I had there that I might really find worth trying to recover. I searched the web and came up empty. Does anyone here know how to get at the data in Spotlight in order to do something like this?</p><p></p><p>Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="morseldoc, post: 1633258, member: 341335"] Sorry, meant to say "dig?" I have some backups of an external four-partition 160 GB HD that crashed about six months ago. The cost to repair is so great, that I wanted to see first what, if anything, I had there that I needed and was ONLY there. Since my external HD is only used plugged into one of my macs and since spotlight is always indexing it, I figured I ought to be able to use the data in Spotlight to recreate a directory listing of my files and see what I had there that I might really find worth trying to recover. I searched the web and came up empty. Does anyone here know how to get at the data in Spotlight in order to do something like this? Thanks. [/QUOTE]
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