[OS X TeX] Re: .tex and mdimport

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 17, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Norm Gall wrote:

>
> Hmmm... Perhaps there was some work I did for the separate release  
> that I do not recall.
>
> When you do an mdimport -d3, what UTI is being assigned to the tex  
> files?
>

Howdy,

Sigh...

I just copied SquareCells.tex (does that sound familiar to anyone  
here :-)) file to my Desktop, cd Desktop, and did

mdimport -d3 SquareCells.tex

to get

$ mdimport -d3 SquareCells.tex
2005-11-17 09:30:38.454 mdimport[371] Attributes of file '/Users/ 
herbs/Desktop/SquareCells.tex' before import: {
     "_kMDItemImporterCrashed" = <null>;
     "com_apple_metadata_modtime" = 136484559;
     kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2004-12-23 08:41:11 -0600;
     kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2005-04-29 11:22:39 -0500;
     kMDItemContentType = "dyn.ah62d4um4ge81k3p2";
     kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
         "com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text",
         "public.plain-text",
         "public.text",
         "public.data",
         "public.item",
         "public.content"
     );
     kMDItemDisplayName = {"" = "SquareCells.tex"; };
     kMDItemKind = {"" = tex; };
}
2005-11-17 09:30:38.458 mdimport[371] Import '/Users/herbs/Desktop/ 
SquareCells.tex' type 'dyn.ah62d4um4ge81k3p2' no mdimporter
2005-11-17 09:30:38.461 mdimport[371] Sending attributes of '/Users/ 
herbs/Desktop/SquareCells.tex' to server.  Attributes: '{
     "_kMDItemImporterCrashed" = <null>;
     "com_apple_metadata_modtime" = 136484559;
     kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2004-12-23 08:41:11 -0600;
     kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2005-04-29 11:22:39 -0500;
     kMDItemContentType = "dyn.ah62d4um4ge81k3p2";
     kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
         "com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text",
         "public.plain-text",
         "public.text",
         "public.data",
         "public.item",
         "public.content"
     );
     kMDItemDisplayName = {"" = "SquareCells.tex"; };
     kMDItemKind = {"" = tex; };
}'

So it looks like it was my imagination! Looking for a unique name  
inside that file gave me a null result.

I guess as you get older you not only start to forget things but  
maybe start to imagine things too!

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


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