[Mark Palmos]

hi there mate
cool
ok
i will download and try them out, see how searching works after the logging is done.

so is it true to say fcp server would require a separate box that is not used for editing?

cheers
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Jeremy,
Yep, most of the time it would be used in FCP.

Spotlight comments would be kinda ok, but
1/ I would have to mouse a lot to get from FCP to finder to info one file by one
2/ spotlight comments would not be related to time code, so I would not have an easy way to make comments which are assigned to a certain place in the clip

My ideal scenario would be something like clip markers which could be assigned and annotated in FCP then exported INTO the mov file they relate to as metadata, which which could then be searched over a network by spotlight… now THAT would be ideal.

I will write a feature request.

And FCP server?

[Mark Palmos]

[Vipul Vaid] “The default Search attribute is ‘Kind’ so to change it scroll down to ‘other…’,”

Hi there Vipul,
Thanks, that is very useful.
It’s quite clunky, but does the trick.
You have to do this every time, so you cannot set it as a preference and have it search system files every time. It also defaults to “dont include” which must be changed to include – but its better than nothing for sure.
Cheers,
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Rob

a couple of things
first off, it took me a while as an xp fan to get used to using the dock, and now i have a keyboard shortcut assigned to it, its just as good as windows’ windows button which you press, then use arrow keys to navigate to the programme you want, then press enter… very easy, and just as easy on the dock.

the other thing, what on earth is wrong with complaining fr the sake of it? The squeaky wheel gets oil, right? If enough users complain to apple about things which are less than ideal, there is more chance those things will be improved, so complain on! It’s healthy!

cheers
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

car’s and hood’s hmmm. Thats a pretty good analogy. If you feel confident, you can open the hood and do what you want. Thats what I would like. Apple lock the hood and I really hate that… but not entirely surprising from a company who still believe one mouse button is enough for their target market…

what about my permissions story. I mean in my ignorance I completely buggered my computer and had to get an expert in to allow me access to any part of my computer… all from pressing a few buttons easily found in the settings, with NO warnings at all…

todays gripe is im on the net at home on my macbook pro but cant see my home network at all (windows computers)

the problem as i see it is osx is a bastardisation of a hugely powerful unix platform and the old EZ is good and users must be protected from themselves mentality. But it has not been smoothed out and inconsistencies like this show up. Im sure it will be smoothed out in time to come.

anyhoo, tx for the conversation… atb
mark

[Mark Palmos]

I was trying to do two simple things

1/ remove some settings which the apple site had recommended i do to fix a problem compressor had. It would have been MUCH faster pressing space-cmd and typing in the name to access it immediately in spotilight, but apple disallowed that, I had to tediously browse to the place.

2/ spotlight find the media folder which is (strangely) kept in the Library folder somewhere so I could delete it to make space on the HD.

simple things easily done on a PC, but not on a mac.

What is irritating is the way some people have a kind of religeous defense of a bit of hardware. So much so that it blocks their ears and prevents empathy. What I was saying was not wining for the sake of it, I would like apple to improve their software and thought perhaps experienced users here could tell me how to flip off the dont-look-here switch.

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Aah
so OSX is designed for the average user, which means it must be kinda dumbed down, which is rather disappointing since there are some great features about it…

In discussions its not useful to impose your limitations on what is possible. What you missed in donig that is the fact that it is possible for an OS to be logical, powerful and secure. Defending for the sake of defense is pointless. It would not take much for searching the whole computer to be a user setting, one which requires admin rights as well as unlocking a box which warns about deleting system files and advises “average” users against it… this way apple could allow not-so-average users to do what they choose.

catcha later
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Zane, thanks for the response again there mate!

Media clips are not system clips! OSX should put Media clips separate from mission critical files… that is pretty certain.

OSX should be smart enough to say “this is a system file, are you sure you want to delete it”? Or as Windows 95 was able to do was to say “you cannot delete this file, it is in use” Surely OSX has reached Win 95 in this regard? (i’m kidding)

Spotlight prevents people from searching Media files which Apple puts in the library… What about allt he preferenxe files which one has to manually delete because OSX is easily as messy as Windows in leaving bits and pieces lying around in a wide variety of places. Surely an Administrator has the intelligence to decide what he/she is doing?

Just 8 months ago when i had just got FCP and had my first problems with disk permissions. I went to disk administrator and saw an array of grey permission buttons. There was no indication of which was was selected or not, so I clicked them all so they were the same colour. OSX had no problem at all allowing me to do this, all i had to do was click on the little lock (like when chaning bluetooth settings etc) OSX allowed me to completely remove MY access to MY computer. I had to get a tech support person in to fix this massive problem… If apple are really being so careful, they should at least be consistent.

I have filled in an OSX feedback form for this issue, hopefully one day…

thanks mate
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi there
I can use Pathfinder to search the whole computer, including the Library, but I would like to be able to do it in spotlight because it is immediate and right there, which is good, but its extremely annoying how apple treats users like dummies. If I want to delete something I should be able. The fact that apple puts audio samples and motion and DVD studio pro templates in the library folder is incredibly stupid. If they are trying to keep users from deleting critical files they should keep these files discretely and separate from throwaway stuff like audio samples.

if there is a hack to force osx to allow spotlight to actually search the entire computer, i would like to know what it is.

Thanks guys
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

hi
yeah, that is a melting pot for sure!
solon was great, had impeccable integrity and was a lawyer; not as famous as aristotle, socrates or plato but i think even more important in his stand for human rights.

cheers mate
mark.