Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open Meta tag support in BibDesk?

[Maxwell, A. R <ada...@pn...>]

On 01/29/09 06:54, "Adam R. Maxwell" <ama...@ma...> wrote:

> Rolf, I must have missed this, but how are you using the tags?  One of
> your posts mentioned smart folders, but I don't believe Finder
> supports searching extended attribute metadata.  Is there some other
> piece of software that allows searching them?  Does BibDesk now search
> them?

So I finally have an answer on the technical side, thanks to Daring
Fireball's link to this discussion:

http://ironicsoftware.com/community/comments.php?DiscussionID=632&amp;page=1
#Item_0

My personal opinion is that Michael Tsai is correct.  This is a clever hack,
but any manipulation of com.apple.* attributes directly is a terrible idea
unless Apple explicitly says otherwise.

-- 
Adam