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Obtaining the directory of a hard drive from Spotlight
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<blockquote data-quote="morseldoc" data-source="post: 1633699" data-attributes="member: 341335"><p>I know of course that there is no substitute for thorough regular backups. Period. However, companies that provide hard drive recovery would have no business whatsoever if everyone backed up as they should all the time. And though Spotlight may not store all the info on files that Finder does, am I wrong to assume that it does store file names and locations? This is what you see using the mdfind command in terminal, as suggested a few posts above. Is mdfind not really reading some data from Spotlight but actually just generating this list of files and locations independently? Can you educate me on what Spotlight is doing when it indexes your hard drive? I appreciate your knowledge of the subject.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="morseldoc, post: 1633699, member: 341335"] I know of course that there is no substitute for thorough regular backups. Period. However, companies that provide hard drive recovery would have no business whatsoever if everyone backed up as they should all the time. And though Spotlight may not store all the info on files that Finder does, am I wrong to assume that it does store file names and locations? This is what you see using the mdfind command in terminal, as suggested a few posts above. Is mdfind not really reading some data from Spotlight but actually just generating this list of files and locations independently? Can you educate me on what Spotlight is doing when it indexes your hard drive? I appreciate your knowledge of the subject. [/QUOTE]
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