https://github.com/goodguyry/update-comments

Manage Spotlight comments from Finder's toolbar
https://github.com/goodguyry/update-comments

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Manage Spotlight comments from Finder's toolbar

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/goodguyry/update-comments
• Owner: goodguyry
• Created: 2013-04-19T02:04:22.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-04-19T02:23:08.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-15T00:16:46.611Z (7 months ago)
• Language: AppleScript
• Size: 153 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Update Comments

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An AppleScript application (with a ridiculously unimaginative name) for managing Spotlight comments.

Drag it to your Finder toolbar to quickly add, edit, replace and remove Spotlight comments. It's got a few odd bugs, mostly related to listing comments for removal or editing, but nothing that prevents using it.

## Setup

### Run it as you would any other AppleScript

The easiest way to do this is to drop the script file into your _~/Library/Scripts_ folder and run it from the Script menu in the menu bar. To enable the Script menu, open AppleScript Editor (/Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor.app) and  enable the option for "Show Script menu in menu bar" in the AppleScript Editor's preferences window.

### Save it as an application

Open the script in AppleScript Editor and select "Application" from the _Save As_ menu. From there, there are a couple extra steps.

1. **Add the icon file to the Resources folder**  

Right-click your application file and select "Show Package Contents". Open the _Contents/Resources_ folder and drag the included .icns file (or your own, whatever) into this folder. Go ahead and copy the filename to the clipboard.

3. **Alter the icon file key in the plist to enable the icon file.**  

In the _Contents_ folder is your Info.plist file. Open this file in your editor of choice and find the ````CFBundleIconFile```` key. Change the associated ```````` entry (directly after ````CFBundleIconFile````) to reflect the name of your icon file (without the file extension). If you've used the included icon file, your plist file should read:  

````  

CFBundleIconFile

update-comments  

````  

Keep that plist file open, dawg...

2. **Add a key to the plist file so the dock icon will remain hidden.**   

In order to keep New File from showing a dock icon (which, IMHO is dumb and pointless for this type of application), you need to _add_ the following to the plist file:  

````

LSUIElement

1

````

## Known issues

Sometimes, when listing comments to remove/replace, comments are duplicated or not listed.