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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