I then dragged and dropped batches of those files onto SearchKeyLite, and gave them informative text in each of the xattrs, particularly the Keywords. I did this in two phases: I set some xattrs, such as the Creator and the start of the Keywords, for all the screenshots using SearchKey first.Īll I did was dump a copy of all the screenshots into a single folder, then used SearchKey’s batch feature to add the common xattr content, as shown. The first, and most tedious, task is to add suitable metadata to each of the screenshots. Having discovered that noodlesoft’s superb Hazel can perform actions on the basis of extended attribute (xattr) content, I have been experimenting with the combination of SearchKeyLite (with SearchKey) and Hazel to organise my screenshots for me. The problem with screenshots is, of course, there is no useful metadata which you can use to search them, or to sort them into folders. I add to them at a rate of knots too, sometimes as many as a hundred in a month.
This would affect the rule status interface that would show an old error indefinitely in some cases.I’ve got thousands of Mac and iOS screenshots on my iMac, many going back fifteen years, and a few even older.
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