Cool, thanks Ben, that's interesting and useful..
|| when you were still a believer in IPTC?!?
...I'm still there, just trying to reconcile workflows ;-)
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Ben Rubinstein wrote:
> On 11/06/2015 09:08, Mike Ellis wrote:
>> Wonders: is there a tool for searching a whole folder / network / etc
>> for
>> embedded data?
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> (I've never used it in anger, had to track this down, but it turns out
> that) on MacOS, "Spotlight" (the system that indexes disk for
> searching) reads and indexes IPTC data.
>
> From a quick test against an NPG image, it doesn't pick up all the
> fields, but it picks up quite a lot. It maps them to some more
> generic fields of its own.
>
> In the Finder user interface, do "Find", ignore the nice easy search
> box, use the "(+)" below it, and from the options select "Other..." -
> and then see if you can spot the options that correspond to IPTC tags.
>
> You can also access it on the command line using "mdfind" with syntax
> such as:
> mdfind "kMDItemHeadline == NPG*"
> mdfind "kMDItemKeywords == *music*"
>
> (You might be pleased to know that the latter command, which I
> expected to find the test NPG image I was looking for, also turned up
> an NMSI image (from making the modern world) that I didn't know was
> still on my disk - which probably dates back to your days there....
> when you were still a believer in IPTC?!?
>
> best,
>
> Ben
>
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