FolderItem methods

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FolderItem.SpotLightFileInfoMBS(uti as string = "") as dictionary

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Spotlight MBS MacOSX Plugin 10.0 ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Yes All
Runs the spotlight metadata importer for this file and returns the dictionary with the metadata found in the file.
Example
dim f as FolderItem = SpecialFolder.Desktop.Child("test.numbers")
dim d as Dictionary = f.SpotLightFileInfoMBS

MsgBox "Title: "+d.Value("kMDItemTitle")
MsgBox "Text Content: "+d.Value("kMDItemTextContent")

Returns nil on any error.
Works well with PDF, AppleWorks, Pages, Numbers, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and all other files, where you have an importer.
Does currently not find importers inside an application.

Some examples using this method:

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