URL of downloaded file in Spotlight comments?
As the title says.
Wouldn´t it be nice to have OW automatically write the URL of a downloaded file to the Spotlight comments of said file? |
Does it not still do this, as it used to in earlier versions of OmniWeb (write to the Comments field anyway - not so sure it did it since Tiger and Spotlight as I haven't had the need to look)?
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[QUOTE=jphaag]Wouldn´t it be nice to have OW automatically write the URL of a downloaded file to the Spotlight comments of said file?
[QUOTE=JKT]Does it not still do this, as it used to in earlier versions of OmniWeb (write to the Comments field anyway - not so sure it did it since Tiger and Spotlight as I haven't had the need to look)?[/QUOTE][/QUOTE] No, not at the moment (at least in my copy!) This is a very handy feature, and I'd also like to see it extended to images dragged from a page (it's even harder to remember where they came from!) One thing to consider; this feature wrote the URL to the comments field, as there was no better alternative. Now that we have extended attributes via Spotlight (see the [B]More Info[/B] section of the [B]Get Info[/B] window) perhaps this detail be written to the 'Where From' attribute? Of course, at the moment Apple doesn't allow you to interact with that data (e.g. Ctrl-click to visit the root URL) so it may not be perfect... just a thought. |
I'm all for this feature too. It was IE 5 mac that used to do this, and it was such a simple but useful resource. If it could work for dragged images too (as Marc suggested) then even better!
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There was some discussion about this back in either the OW 4.5 or 5.0 days. There was a period of time where it was really hard for the OG to write that data as it was a common source for crashes. I wouldn't be surprised if it went away, but I sure hope it stays.
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This was lost in the move to WebKit, we have a bug open to restore the feature (which should happen for the final release).
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So did Omniweb used to do this?
Anyway, great to see this in sp10! |
Yes, writing the URL of the download to the file's comments has been an OmniWeb feature since 2001. (I think we introduced it in a 4.1 beta, pulled it briefly because we were tickling some bug in the Finder, then found a way to bring it back in 4.2.)
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« OmniWeb 5.5 Sneaky Peek 10 Release Notes
... The source URL will now be added to the comments section of a downloaded file. ... » |
[QUOTE=myckmack]« OmniWeb 5.5 Sneaky Peek 10 Release Notes
... The source URL will now be added to the comments section of a downloaded file. ... »[/QUOTE] Just to be a broken record, how about adding the URL to images dragged to the desktop (once that's working, of course)? This would be helpful in back-tracking to where an interesting image came from -- comes up a lot for me... no-one else? |
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