Problem with add Spotlight Comments script.

Hello,
I am trying to add Spotlight Comments to some files using Automator. I have made an very simple script in Automator that add Spotlight Comments to the files that I have selected in Finder. I save this script as an app and it work great. I also save the same script but not as an app but as a service. The problem here is that when I run the service it add the same Spotlight Comment two times. For example, if I add "@Webshots" with the app the Spotlight Comments of the files is "@Webshots" but when I do it with the service the Spotlight Comments of the files is "@Webshots" "@Webshots". Can anybody help me with this? I will appreciate it a lot any help that you could give me. Thanks

I suspect your workflow includes 'get select finder items' as the first action. get rid of it. it's redundant in a service that accepts files and folder in finder. that's why everything happens twice.

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I have a moderately ugly shell script that downloads and examines a succession of files and builds a description (just a few dozen words) that I want to add automatically to those comments. At the end of my script, I've downloaded the file, and stored the comments I want in a separate temp file.
As far as I can see, Automator can't do this: I can't specify a file as the incoming source of those new Spotlight Comments, can I?
Assuming the answer is negative, two quick non-Automator followups:
1) Is there any shell-script level Unix command that can manipulate the comments (without trying to hack into the .DS_Store files, that is).
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Automator can do it, although some of the actions may not be obvious. Text (for example, the results of your ugly shell script) can be placed into a variable for later use, but you can also get it from a file. If your description/comment is in a plain text file, you can use the Combine Text Files action to get the text, then place it in a variable that can be used with the Set Spotlight Comments for Finder Items action.
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one of our authors is using adobe reader x 11,1, and I send him a pdf (enabled commenting and measuring), but for some reason the commenting-fields does not show on his screen?
should I save the pdf in another way?

What do you mean by "commenting fields" exactly? By “commenting filds” I mean the tools in top of the page – delete, highlight etc. When I send the pdf, I save it as “file - save as - reader extended pdf – enable commenting and measuring”, otherwise the commenting tools normally don’t appear by the author.
Are they existing comments? no, it is the text in his pdf-book he needs to correct
Is he able to access the commenting tools? no
You can try sending a non-enabled version since Reader 11 can add comments to a non-enabled document. will try that J
Fra: George Johnson [email protected]
Sendt: 6. november 2012 16:16
Til: Forlagene Idag & Nordan
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Try the following test scripts. If they fail on any folder you choose, I'm afraid something is surely wrong in your system, not in your script code.
(If they fail, create new user account and try them in it to narrow down the problem cause. Also try repairing disk and/or repairing permissions.
And it might help as well to clear some caches by using, e.g. Onyx:
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
Or even to re-apply OSX's Combo Updater:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
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H
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avoodi wrote:
Hi I have a creative Zen Xtra, bought it just a week ago, and liked it a lot, (Except the size ...) but i think i am having a problem with it. If I have to create a play list, while I am playing songs how to do it ?Lets say i am playing song aa from album AA i click on AA , and the select song aa and click on Play now it starts playing but now i want to add it to playlist , then i click on aa and in the menu that comes up i click on "Add to Play" but as soon as i click on the "black roller while) to select "add to play" I can see the selection on the previous menu (song aa ) moves to next line.. Same thing happens if I have to add Album AA to play list, the cursor on the previous manu shifts one position below, And the song/alblum is never added to the play list.Do i have to do it only using PC ?that sucks .. let me know
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