Finder comments visible in Aperture?

I have a notes in the Finder Comments in scans I've imported into Aperture. Can I see those comments in Aperture?
I made visible every metadata field and don't see the Finder Comments. I have them as referenced files so it's easy to go and see the comments.
I have a mix of scans from the internet and photos of documents I've taken and was hoping to use the Comments field in Aperture. Mainly because I've got about 100 documents I downloaded and I pasted the info related to the document in the Comments field.
Thanks for any help. Maybe an AppleScript to do the job?

Found answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12556579/get-spotlight-comments-from-file-usi ng-python. No idea what -KU is about, but script worked fine without it.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby -KU
require 'cgi'
plist = `xattr -p com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment test.txt |
xxd -r -p | plutil -convert xml1 -o - -`
puts CGI.unescapeHTML(plist.scan(/<string>(.*?)<\/string>/m)[0][0])

Similar Messages

How do I find duplicate images in Aperture?

How do I find duplicate images in Aperture AFTER importing my entire library from iPhoto? There must be a way to do that, right?
Please let me know the secret.
Thanks!

Léonie, Thank you for your rapid reply!
I am using Aperture Version 3.4.3 and 9.4.2. I downloaded the Duplicate Annihilator but it gives me an error message that says this:
I have no idea what that is all about since I am using this library in iPhoto and Aperture. I already sent the company an email asking about the problem.
I am seeing dupes that came from my original photos in iPhoto and from iPhoto PhotoStreams with monthly dates; these are listed in my Apertrure Projects listing. Is there a way to SAFELY dump these dupes?
Thanks!
Robb

In iphoto there is a one click button in edit for enhance which I find very useful, in Aperture 3 is there the same quick edit ?

In iphoto there is a one click button in edit for enhance which I find very useful, in Aperture 3 is there the same quick edit ?

Hello Michael,
Yes, there is. Look in the Inspector - Adjustment Tab:
In the "Presets-Selector -> Quick Fixes" you will find "Auto Enhance"
Regards
Léonie

Macbook is frozen while trying to quit. Finder still visible in topline. Spinning color wheel visible. Help?

Macbook frozen while trying to quit after doing force quit on word. Finder still visible in topline. Spinning color wheel spins and spins. What do I do?

does it crash in a new user?

Format my hard disk.Unfortunately I have lost Aperture cover and bill from Apple.How to find serial no. of Aperture ?

fI have Aperture cd from Apple Store.Due to some reason I have toformat my hard disk.Unfortunately I have lost Aperture cover and bill from Apple.How to find serial no. of Aperture ?

Is it installed on an other system? If so you can see the serial number in the About Aperture window.
If not ant you wiped your disk and Aperture is no longer installed there is no way to find the serial number apart from the hard copy you had when you bought it.
See Pro Application Replacement Serial Numbers and give Apple a call. They are pretty good at working with you to try and recover the serial number.

How do i find the visible area...

Hi everyone.
I'm trying to get the size of the visible area of a JFrame, but it keeps returning 0. I use this.contantpane().getsize() . Its because I need a drawing area which occupies a certain area of the contentpane. How can I find the visible area without the toolbar and border around the frame?
Here is my code:
public class CgraphForm extends JFrame implements Runnable {
    private int h = 600; // Height of JFrame
    private int w = 800; // Width of JFrame
    private double pad; // Padding edges size [%]
    private JButton btClose = new JButton();
    private CGUI gui;
    private boolean running = true;
    public CgraphForm(CGUI _gui) {
        // Name of frame send to parent (super) which is the JFrame
        super("Temperature");
        gui = _gui; // Used to enable the applet again
        pad = 0.05 * h;
        System.out.println("GraphForm thread started");
       try {
           jbInit();
       } catch (Exception ex) {
           ex.printStackTrace();
    public void run() {
        // Interrupt makes the thread terminate proberly by ending its run method
        while (running) {
            try {
                Thread.currentThread().sleep(100);
            } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                running = false;
    private void jbInit() throws Exception {
        setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE); // Disposes the JFrame when its closed
        this.setSize(w,h);
        this.setLocationRelativeTo(null); // Location af JFrame on screen
        this.addWindowListener(new CgraphForm_this_windowAdapter(this));
        Container contentPane = this.getContentPane();
        Dimension size = contentPane.getSize();
        System.out.println(size);
        contentPane.setLayout(new XYLayout());
        // PENDING graphSize mangler et offset paa bredden, sandsynligvis kanten af framen
        Dimension graphSize = new Dimension( (int) (w - 2 * pad),
                                             (int) (h - 0.45 * h));
        JPanel panel = new JPanel;
        contentPane.add(panel, new XYConstraints((int)pad,(int)pad,(int)graphSize.getWidth(),(int)graphSize.getHeight()));
        this.setVisible(true);
        btClose.setText("Close window");
        btClose.addActionListener(new CgraphForm_btClose_actionAdapter(this));
        contentPane.add(btClose, new XYConstraints((int)pad, 500, -1, -1));
}/lars

I need the size to draw my panel.
You shouldn't do. Your panel should be able to draw itself without knowing its size. Assuming your panel is just a plain space which you draw on, that means one of two things: either you make its rendering logic sensitive to its own size (which you can detect in the paint() method) or you can assign it a preferred size and then place it in a JScrollPane to ensure that it can always be viewed. Both of these are fairly straightforward solutions.

Can not find a library in Aperture after upgrading to Mavericks?

I upgraded my Aperture to 3.5 on Mavericks. Since I have updated my Aperture, I cannot open my second Library "Aperture Library"
This is what it happens:
I can not find my "Aperture Library" photos, and when I try to switch between the library (File>Switch Libaries>"Aperture Library" this comes up:
When I click on relaunch:Then when I click on "Aperture Library" and press chose, a 3 second process occurs and Aperture returns back to where it was when it was opened. The "Aperture Library" doesn't appear anywhere.
When I go to Altinoz (My Mac) > Pictures > Aperture Library:
When I try to open the Aperture Library folder in My Mac > Pictures > Aperture Library
Do you want to import this library to Aperture (which was already in the old verison of Aperture)
An error comes up:
The library could not be imported because it is from an out of date version of Aperture 3. Please upgrade the library to the latest version of Aperture 3 and try again.
I would really appreciate your help on helping me find "Aperture Library" Photos I have, since the upgrading to Mavericks really made annoying problems to me.

It seems to me that you need Aperture 3.2.4 to open your library.
If you have it then do the following:
Uninstall Aperture 3.5
Install Aperture 3.2.4
Start Aperture and verify that you can access your library
Update to Aperture 3.4.5
Start Aperture and verify that you can access your library
At the end update to Aperture 3.5 and upgrade your library
If you don't have the older versions, maybe try to open the library in iPhoto. Does that work?

Why are Panasonic GX7 RAW photos not visible in Aperture but in OS X Mavericks and iPhoto?

My Panasonic GX7 RAW photos seem to be visible in OS X Mavericks and iPhoto, but bizarrely not in Aperture (3.5.1).
Does anyone know why this would be? Any solution greatly appreciated.
I've been unable to mange a significant number of images for almost 7 months now due to Aperture's lack of GX7 RAW support and am seriously considering migrating to Lightroom 5. Aperture has been my workflow application of choice for the last 7 or 8 years, but I feel the current situation has become unacceptable and deeply disappointing .

That camera was supported in digital camera Raw 5.0.1 and Aperture 3.4.5 or later. As you say the files are supported in iPhoto it seems you have the right Raw file.
Have you tried it with new imports in Aperture does it still fail? What if you reprocess the Raw files in Aperture, any change?

ITunes does not find all pictures in aperture

Hi,
I am trying to sync my first generation iPad with some pictures in aperture via itunes.
All of my folders and projects appear in itunes and are selectable. But itunes shows some folders with 0 pictures, which is not true.
I already made all maintenance procedures on the aperture mediathek, deleted the ipod photo cache folder several times, made several restarts and it does not change.
Some folders are OK, all pictures are synchronizable and some foldres simply show 0.
All my pictures are saved in the aperture mediathek.
Does anybody have an idea, what else could be successful?
Thanks, Bob

I had the problem...firgured my issue out. When I looked at the differences it appears as though itunes wants to know what type of file you have. In other words you need to have the extension. I looked at my photos and the photos itunes saw all had the .jpg or .tif. I exported the files I wanted on the phone, since renaming them didn't change the file name, looked in the finder to make sure that the .jpg was on the file and reimported and boom sync'd perf.
good luck
shaun
Message was edited by: Shaun Kennedy1

BPM 11g - Making comments visible to all interactive activities in process

Does anyone know of a way to make comments from one interactive activity visible in a subsequent interactive activity within the same process?
We need this visibility since there are multiple human tasks in the process and the comments are relevant to the instance as a whole as it travels through the process.
I've attempted to create a process data object of type "TaskExecutionData" and use that to map the comments in and out of the data associations for the interactive activities, but ran into bpel faults. The first attempt just used simple data association mappings for the execData.userComment collection (array) - but that results in assignment errors at runtime if there are no comments present. Having seen these errors before and having resolved them using a XSL transformation, I tried that route as well to map the userComment collection using a for-each construct - however that attempt resulted in a different bpel fault at runtime referring to duplicate definitions of the same type or something to that effect.
Any ideas?

Yes, but this is in version 11g, not 10g or 6. The human tasks use the ADF task flows, as is standard practice in 11g.
I've attempted mapping the userComment array from the task's execData to process variables, but that effort resulted in bpel faults at runtime.
I managed a roundabout way (i.e. a hack) to get the comments into the new task from the previous one using the human workflow services API in a managed bean of the task flow, but I'm having difficulty getting the comment iterator of the data control to update and pull in the comments.

Spotlight issue - Finder comments dont seem to be updated

Hi,
trying to classify files using spotlight comments in the Finder (after Cmd-i; also via AppleScript) but it's hit&miss. Usually (not always) adding a comment works and a search finds it immediately, but sometimes it does not. The other way is worse: removing a comment very often is not taken into account at all - the file remains in the respective Saved Search, even though Cmd-i shows that the comment is gone.
Some more datapoints:
- reindexing helps; mdutil -E <VolumeName>, wait 30min, and then everything is fine (...this is a bit of a Windows solution...)
- mdls has the wrong information, ie even if the comment is gone from the file it still is in mdls (...which makes sense I guess; this is why the search still finds it...)
- mdimport -d 2 <filename> shows that the correct comment (eg no comment, or a changed comment) has been read, it is just ignored (ie subsequent mdls shows the old comment)
I guess this is a bug, so I can really only hope Apple will fix it - but does someone know a workaround that would force spotlight to import all data? I guess it is one of the Apple optimisation tricks- OSX thinks it knows better....

what always helps for me is to run from a terminal
mdutil -E /Volumes/Volumename
which rebuilds the index (Volumename is the name of a mounted encrypted sparsebundle) --- but this is slow
what sometimes helps is to eject / remount the disk, but no clear solution yet
Oh, and by the way: on a 1GB drive (mainly pdfs) my freshly indexed spotlight is 100MB, but after a week or so it grows to 900MB...)

Outlook2010 Search finds non-visible email headers?

Dear fellow Turkey-weekenders, I'm trying to help someone configure their new Outlook 2010 email client to work with their existing Verizon POP3 email account. I believe we've jumped through most of the hoops correctly but have a minor mystery!
After following the Verizon web instructions to set up the Outlook 2010 client we have sent several test email from a completely different machine and email system. Its apparent that our test emails are being received by the new Outlook 2010 client because outlook displays notifications of them in the lower right of the screen as they come in and we can Search all folders, find them and read them. However, when click on the Inbox or any other visible folder of the new account within the email client there are no emails visible. There are simply no headers whatsoever - no sender or subject or any other info.
Another interesting symptom is that the Inbox will correctly display the *number* of incoming messages we've sent or the *number* of unread messages in the Inbox (depending on a setting we found for that) but there are no actual headers visible in the Inbox. During the client account creation we did request the the pop3 server retain a copy of the emails (for 5 days as recommended in the instructions.)
If it matters, this in a new setup of Outlook 2010 and this is the only instance of any email client set up on this computer. The account was previously feeding an Outlook Express client on an old computer but that computer is in a different location and has not been turned on all weekend during the setup and testing of our new email client.
Is there a server or client setting that needs to be turned on? Is there an Outlook 2010 folder that is invisible? We've tried to look at the properties of the emails when Outlook 2010 Search finds them but there are no indications of what folder they might be in other than the Inbox, where they are certainly not visible.
peppergrinder
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Solved! (I think )
Sometimes the only option left for a problem is to "Sleep on it!" Leaving our problem overnight may have helped us solve it.
I believe our problem was in overlooking a detail of the new Outlook 2010 Email Client interface. By default, Outlook 2010 "groups" all incoming headers by Date (such as "Date: Today", "Date: Yesterday", "Date: [previous weekdays]", "Date: Last Week") and does not necessarily "Expand" the "Date: Today" group by default. This has the unfortunate effect that a new user looking at their brand new Inbox display will see a line that says "Date: Today" with nothing visible under it. What is not easily realized is that there is a tiny triangular arrow to the left of the "Date: Today" group heading and it is by default set to the "collapsed" state for "Today."
The "Collapse/Expand" arrows in the new Outlook 2010 interface appear as follows: Hollow white triangle pointing directly to the right indicates a collapse "group." Solid black triangle pointing slightly down to the right indicates an expanded "group." The "groups" such as "Date: Today" and "Date: Yesterday" can be expanded or collapsed independently of each other and by default the Outlook client starts out with Today collapsed and Yesterday and groupings beyond "expanded," I believe.
This grouping feature is nice once you get used to it and all kinds of grouping can be turned on or off but I think for all of you supporting Outlook new users, this expand/collapse feature of the email interface will be something to check on when people report that they aren't receiving email or can't see their email!
peppergrinder

I am unable to find white balance in Aperture?

Get my RAW images down loaded into a new project,
Where do you find white balance setting to manipulate?
Only facilities available are crop, touch.
Am I missing something here?

That depends on what you want to do with your images.
First you should calibrate your monitor..
And if you then wan to print images with one of your printers you should select the approriate profile in the proofing menu.
check here for more about colour proofing/calibration in Aperture:
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/02/13/insideaperturepodcast-9.html

How to find referenced images in Aperture Library

Hi,
On starting Aperture it tells me I have 18 referenced images. When creating a vault it tells me all but these 18 referenced images will be backed up. Problem is, try as I might I can't find these referenced images anywhere in my Aperture library, and yes I've even checked my rejected images.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance.
Alistair

The apfile for a referenced image contains an extra key: fileAliasData.
So get a copy of TextWrangler (or BBEdit) and search the library for all files ending in apfile that contain the string fileAliasData. This will tell you which images are affected and where they are.
The other difference is that fileIsReference is set true for referenced masters and false for managed masters.
See this link for some idea of how to do multi-file searches with TextWrangler:
http://www.bagelturf.com/files/97660a1a1ba5b7f45c1d43b34dbce327-812.html

How do we make finder toolbar visible while using firefox

We do not have firefox in fullscreen. The toolbar is visible when in any other application, and hides only while using firefox, a recent development.

Hi,
Can you please provide a screenshot of what this finder toolbar looks like? [[How do I create a screenshot of my problem?]]

Finder comments visible in Aperture?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for