Spotlight

[Allen]

So, is it just me or has something broken with QSB and the later SVN
builds?

For instance, if I do a spotlight search for "Brinks", it shows the
folder located at
/Users/Allen/Documents/Sigma/Brinks. However, QSB never gets around
to it.
Spotlight source is enabled. QSB will find the Sigma folder. I've
even had
spotlight re-index my drives. If I disable the spotlight source, I get
the same
search, so it looks to me as if QSB isn't even bothering with the
spotlight source.
I'm building 10.5/Release/QSB Application with svn up to 499. Looks
like using BaseSDK, Build everything, and various other options do not
help either.

Now this does work on an older build that I have from about 6/30....

[Allen]

Well, I've tested several SVN builds, and the spotlight search is fine
at 474, and stoped working thereafter.

Dev's, any response? Am I the only one seeing this? If so, then I
know to look at my end...

[Aaron Ecay]

2009ko 07aren 31ean, Allen-ek zion:

>
> Well, I've tested several SVN builds, and the spotlight search is fine
> at 474, and stoped working thereafter.
>
> Dev's, any response? Am I the only one seeing this? If so, then I
> know to look at my end...

No, this is apparently a bug in QSB, introduced in SVN on 7/20 (i.e. it
is not in the latest release, only in builds from source). See
http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=669

Allen, there is a (one-line) patch attached to that issue, so if you're
up for it, you could try it out and see if it fixes your problem. There
appear to be other, older problems with the Spotlight Source, so it
isn't guaranteed that the patch will fix your problem. But based on the
SVN revision you've bisected it down to, I am fairly confident it will.

--
Aaron Ecay

[Dave MacLachlan]

Hey guys..

The spotlight source is currently in the middle of a massive revamp by
yours truly, so please don't invest any time in it. I'll have new bugs
for you to point out real soon now ;-) I'm sorry I've been lax
responding to mail, and I know I have a bit of a backlog to catch up
on. I will get back to you Aaron ;-)

I'm RIGHT in the middle of moving from CA to WA, so I've been a bit
distracted. Once I'm set up again up north, I'll do some catch up.

Cheers,
Dave

(When I say RIGHT in the middle of moving, I mean I've got a
paintbrush in one my non-typing hand doing touchups on a wall now that
all the furniture is loaded type of thing ;-) )

[maccamb]

I have the same issue with the released build. You can see a snapshot
of the misbehaving QSB here: http://sites.google.com/site/maccamb/out/qsb

Would appreciate your feedback.

Thanks,
- m

[Kris Rambish]

maccamb - the Spotlight source doesn't activate until you type more than 5 characters.  We did this for performance reasons, but as Dave mentioned it is under a complete re-vamp so this may not be true in the next release.  Here are some of the other Spotlight issues we are tracking:

  http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=431

  http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=500

  http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=516

  http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=636

Kris

[Allen]

Thanks! I'd combed over the issues serveral times, but I prolly
missed the chance to report the bug initially as I've been fooling
around with this for a while. I build from SVN pretty frequently.

I'll try the patch for grins, and wait for Dave to get himself moved
and the source revamped.

Though, considering the 12-16 hours days I've been putting in this
week, I won't feel sorry for him, but I will understand! ;-p

On Jul 31, 5:48 am, Aaron Ecay <aarone...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009ko 07aren 31ean, Allen-ek zion:
>
>
>
> > Well, I've tested several SVN builds, and the spotlight search is fine
> > at 474, and stoped working thereafter.
>
> > Dev's, any response?  Am I the only one seeing this?  If so, then I
> > know to look at my end...
>
> No, this is apparently a bug in QSB, introduced in SVN on 7/20 (i.e. it

> is not in the latest release, only in builds from source).  Seehttp://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=669

[maccamb]

Thanks Kris!

On Jul 31, 2:54 pm, Kris Rambish <qsb.team.kr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> maccamb - the Spotlight source doesn't activate until you type more than 5
> characters.  We did this for performance reasons, but as Dave mentioned it
> is under a complete re-vamp so this may not be true in the next release.
>  Here are some of the other Spotlight issues we are tracking:http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=431
>  http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=500
>  http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=516
>  http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=636
>
> Kris
>

[maccamb]

If the Spotlight search does not activate until 5 characters, then
what search function yields the results I get in my particular case?
Does that function look at the first character only?

[Matt Rodkey]

Possibly Applications Source (Applications Folder), Documents Source (Documents folder), Recent Applications and Documents Source, Downloads Source

There are a number of sources that search files and folders, though I believe most of the above do not traverse many (if any) nested levels of folders, hence where spotlight would come in to pick up the rest.

--
Thanks,
Matt

[Kris Rambish]

Matt is correct.  The other individual folder sources fire on one character, but do not traverse.  The Application Source is slightly different as it uses Spotlight and executes:

  mdfind "(kMDItemContentTypeTree == 'com.apple.application')"

every 60 seconds.  It too will fire on one character.

Kris

[Joey]

I'm trying to figure out why using the spotlight database would be
necessary? Doesn't it just slow everything down to maintain 2
databases?

On Aug 5, 9:57 am, Kris Rambish <qsb.team.kr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt is correct.  The other individual folder sources fire on one character,
> but do not traverse.  The Application Source is slightly different as it
> uses Spotlight and executes:  mdfind "(kMDItemContentTypeTree ==
> 'com.apple.application')"
>
> every 60 seconds.  It too will fire on one character.
>
> Kris
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Matt Rodkey <mrod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Possibly Applications Source (Applications Folder), Documents Source
> > (Documents folder), Recent Applications and Documents Source, Downloads
> > Source
> > There are a number of sources that search files and folders, though I
> > believe most of the above do not traverse many (if any) nested levels of
> > folders, hence where spotlight would come in to pick up the rest.
>