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Gizzer
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Hampshire (the original one)
 
2005-05-12, 10:02

I guess it's debatable whether it's Spotlight that's faulty or iPhoto. Either way, Spotlight stops working as intended.

I read on the Apple forum that the Keyword metadata doesn't actually get written to the images themselves but rather to a separately maintained iPhoto database. That seems wierd to me. I thought .jpg's and other modern image formats now have the facility to add metadata in to the files themselves or am I wrong? Surely that's a better solution than maintaining a separate db that can potentially corrupt or fall out of step?


...Still on a Spotlight note, apparently users that are having other problems with spotlight report that Finder also becomes affected so you can't search that way either, until the Spotlight index is completely rebuilt.

Roll on 10.4.1
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