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jaketmp / ePub-quicklook

NOTE: Not working in Mojave and later! ePub quicklook and spotlight plugins for Mac OS X.
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kind: not working with this plugin #52

Open Zman67 opened 2 years ago

Zman67 commented 2 years ago

After indexing epubs (I literally have tens of thousands) the searches work in Spotlight. I'm a datascientist so if I type the word "heteroscedasticity", epubs appear. But just like with PDF's I'd like te be able to select te "kind" of document. So if I type: "kind:pdf heteroscedasticity" Spotlight only shows the PDF's with that word.

However when I type: "kind:epub heteroscedasticity" it doesn't find any epubs with that word.

chrisridd commented 1 year ago

It looks like we index pubs with a kind like this:

kMDItemKind                            = "Electronic Publication (EPUB)"

Does using that magic string help at all?

Hint:

  1. open Terminal.app
  2. enter mdls (with that trailing space)
  3. drag an epub file into that window
  4. hit return.

You should see all the indexed fields for that file.