Saving Spotlight Comments?

I saved some NBC "Meet the Press" netcasts as QuickTime movies to my hard drive. I want to be able to store comments with each movie as to who the guests and topics are for each show.
When I copy the information and paste it into the "Spotlight Comments" box of a given movie's "Get Info" window, and then come back to re-open the same window some time later, the information is gone!
How can I get this kind of metadata tag to stick to a file? Is there another place I should put this information instead?

Unfortunately the data in the Spotlight Comments field in GetInfo is really stored in the .DS_Store file in the folder the file is in. I think the best idea is to open the movie in QuickTime Player, then go to the menu item Window and select Show Movie Properties. Click the Annotations tab, from the dropdown Add Annotation menulet at the bottom select Comment, and then type in your information and save. This will become part of the metadata of the file and can be searched for with Spotlight.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

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How to copy a files spotlight comments for an entire folder and place them in a different file with that same name

I have the same question in a different discussion but I already marked it as solved because one of the questions was answered. Here's the linke to the other discussion if your interested https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5970421
I have movie covers saved as a jpeg for every movie my family and I own. There is about 700 and they each have a comment of the main actors, release dates, and descriptions. This makes it easy to find what to watch.Is there an applescript, automator, program I can download, or program code supported in xcode that will do the following set of inscructions?
Take the name of the picture file and spotlight comment, copy and paste it to a movie file's comments to a file with the same name but obviously has different extention. For an example
In a Pictures folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.jpeg       Comment: (2008) Genre: Action...             <- copy comment
In a Movie Folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.m4v       Comment:                                               <- paste
and do this for all 700 files

Clendenen02 wrote:
where should I run the code? in the terminal, or an applescript, or should put it in xcode and run it from there or the terminal.
What MrHoffman said.
But if it's easier, you can wrap it in Automator and have Automator ask for the Folders: (Test on a sample of your files before running on all 700 files)
(do you really own 700 movies??)
The Workflow is:
Put this in the Run Shell Script Action (and pass input as arguments":
PicDir=$1
MovDir=$2
for f in $PicDir/*
do
     if [ ! -d "$f" -a "${f##*.}" = "jpeg" ]; then
          comment=$(mdls -raw -name kMDItemFinderComment "$f")
          if [[ $comment != "(null)" ]]; then
               picname=${f##*/}
               movname=${picname%.*}.m4v
               if [[ -e "$MovDir"/$movname ]]; then
osascript <<-EOF
tell application "Finder"
set comment of file (POSIX file "$MovDir/$movname") to "$comment"
end tell
EOF
               fi
          fi
     fi
done
(BTW, I know that this is a bit of sloppy scripting (wraping an osascript in a Bash Script wrapped in Automator, but it does what you need)

How to copy a files name and spotlight comments to a text file for an entire folder

I have movie covers saved as a jpeg for every movie my family and I own. There is about 700 and they each have a comment of the main actors, release dates, and descriptions. This makes it easy to find what to watch. I want my parents to have all of this info but they have a windows laptop so the comments don't transfer with the file and can't be searched like you can on a mac. Is there an applescript, automator, program I can download, or program code supported in xcode that will do at least one of the following things?
1)Take the name of the picture file and spotlight comment, copy and paste it into a text document like word that looks like this...
File Name1- Spotlight Comment for file 1
File Name 2- Spotlight Comment for file 2
. for all 700 files in a folder
2) It would be equally helpful if there was something that would take the name of the picture file and spotlight comment, copy and paste it to a movie file's comments with the same name but obviously has different extention. For an example
In a Pictures folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.jpeg       Comment: (2008) Genre: Action...             <- copy comment
In a Movie Folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.m4v       Comment:                                               <- paste
and do this for all 700 files
3) Is there a free photo program that works on mac and windows that I can put all my movie pictures in and have a description like I did with the comments? It would also need a place that to search the description for keywords. So Basically an itunes for pictures that works on both mac and windows. If so I still need a way to get the spotlight comments to the description.
4) I feel like this would make things more difficult, but if not I can put all of the .m4v files in itunes so instead of pasting all the comments back into a file in finder paste them in a description in itunes
5) At the very least a code that I can run one by one for every file that will paste the comments into the same document
Note: When I say spotlight comments I mean the comment box that is available when you click on get info of a file. The pictures are in the pictures section of finder in a folder called Movie Pictures. The movie files are on an external hard-drive in a file called Movies. Also I am slightly familiar with applescript and automater in that I have used both to create keyboard shortcuts and simple voice commands. I have programmed in c++ and C too. So If you give me a code for applescript I do know what to do with it.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read all of this and extra thanks to anyone who tries to help.

Clendenen02 wrote:
2) It would be equally helpful if there was something that would take the name of the picture file and spotlight comment, copy and paste it to a movie file's comments with the same name but obviously has different extention. For an example
In a Pictures folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.jpeg       Comment: (2008) Genre: Action...             <- copy comment
In a Movie Folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.m4v       Comment:                                               <- paste
and do this for all 700 files
This Bash script will do it.
Edit "PicDir" and "MovDir" to the location of your Folders
(Note: The comment is written to the m4v file using xattr, so the Spotlight comment field appears blank in Finder, but the comment metadata is still indexed by Spotlight (If you add a Spotlight comment from Finder, it is stored both as an extended attribute and in a .DS_Store file)
#!/bin/bash
PicDir=$HOME/Desktop/Pictures
MovDir=$HOME/Desktop/Movies
for f in $PicDir/*
do
     if [ ! -d "$f" -a "${f##*.}" == "jpeg" ]; then
          comment=$(mdls -raw -name kMDItemFinderComment "$f")
          if [[ $comment != "(null)" ]]; then
               picname=${f##*/}
               movname=${picname%.*}.m4v
               if [ -e "$MovDir"/$movname ]; then
                     xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment "\"$comment\"" "$MovDir"/$movname
               fi
          fi
     fi
done

Need help modifying Applescript to copy "Spotlight Comments" into file

Hello all,
I have a very large batch of images of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks. I used the "Spotlight Comments" field of each file to save information about the notebook page depicted in each image:
Well, I had to modify each image in Photoshop and when I saved the files, Photoshop of course didn't retain the Spotlight Comments. Now, before I modified the images, I duplicated the directory, so I have a copy of all of the images that retain their Spotlight Comments field with each image's information. What I want to do is copy the text from the Spotlight Comments field of the original files and either paste this text into the Spotlight Comments field of the modified files (which are in a different directory, but retain the same filenames as the originals), or at least copy the text from the Spotlight Comments field of the original files and paste each block of text into a txt file with a couple of blank lines in between each entry, so that I can manually copy/paste the citations into the modified image's Spotlight Comments fields.
I successfully used this Applescript: https://discussions.apple.com/message/6741062#6741062
to get the Spotlight Comments from the original files, but it displays them one by one in pop-up dialog boxes and because I have almost a thousand images it is extraordinarily wearisome to copy the text from each pop-up, paste it into a text file, make two blank lines, click "OK" in the pop-up to get the next one...
Can anyone suggest how I can modify the code I have to tell the Finder to copy the contents of each pop-up and paste them into a single text file with a couple of blank lines between each entry?
I have the barest, most rudimentary knowledge of Applescript, which is why I'm asking if one of the wizards here can help me modify or write an Applescript to do what I need to do.
Thank you so much!
BTW, here is the code from the aforementioned discussion that gets the Spotlight Comments from files. I made into an Applescript application using Automator:
tell application "Finder"
repeat with tItem in input
set (comment of tItem) to (text returned) of (display dialog "Spotlight Comment: " default answer (comment of tItem as string))
end repeat
end tell

Hi,
Evan Izer wrote:
Now, before I modified the images, I duplicated the directory, so I have a copy of all of the images that retain their Spotlight Comments field with each image's information. What I want to do is copy the text from the Spotlight Comments field of the original files and either paste this text into the Spotlight Comments field of the modified files (which are in a different directory, but retain the same filenames as the originals)
This script does exactly that:
set sFolder to (choose folder "Select folder wich contains original images.") as string
set dFolder to choose folder "Select folder wich contains modified images."
tell application "Finder"
      repeat with tItem in (get document files of dFolder)
            set origFile to sFolder & (get name of tItem)
            if file origFile exists then
                  set origComment to comment of file origFile
                  set comment of tItem to origComment
            end if
      end repeat
end tell

Spotlight Comments do not appear in Spotlight search results

I have a .png file on my desktop.
Right click >> Get Info
Spotlight Comments has the string 'Fruit' saved.
If I search for 'Fruit' in Spotlight I get no results, why?

Hi TD
Yes and no.
Yes it worked the way you mentioned but if I change the Spotlight Comment: on the same file to something else I can still find it via 'Fruit'. I much prefer command-space bar to call Spotlight.
How long does it take a change to a Spotlight Comment: to filter into Spotlight?
Its not the end of the world its just I was finding Spotlight really useful until I came up against this.

Spotlight comments over a network

Hello,
I am using spotlight comments in the GetInfo window of my files as keywords for search. Everything works fine on my computer, but as I ove the files to our server, to an archive folder, I am not able to find the files using that comments. I use both smart folders and command-F from the Finder, selecting as searching criteria "Spotlight comments" but seems that this comments are not read. I checked and the comments are still written... Do I have to activate something may be on the server? Or is something like a bug in the "find" command?
thank you for your help.

Hi, Maurizio. Welcome to the Discussions.
The Spotlight Comments field in the Get Info window is actually identical to the Get Info "Comments" field in prior versions of Mac OS X. Accordingly, Spotlight Comments are saved only on your computer. Hence the Spotlight Comments are not copied to the server.
The instructions in "Mac OS X: Get Info Comments May Not Appear for Remote Volumes" apply to Spotlight Comments as well as the old Get Info "Comments."
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

Spotlight Comments disappeared today

I have been using Spotlight Comments on files for months. Today they seem to have disappeared. Why?

Thanks for the reply.
I did the additional test, curious to see what would happen.
I entered a new comment on a file where the previous comments were invisible.
Note that the old comments were replaced ... apparently. I observed a fleeting phenomenon where command-I on a file with invisible comments actually flashes two windows very quickly. I have no clue what is going on, but perhaps there is one file containing "oxstress" and other comments, and another containing "spotlight_test"; I checked this with spotlight by searching "spotlight AND oxstress", I the double checked with Houdaspot using the unique file name as a filter, and it found the file where both search items are needed for a match. I also double checked the latter by adding a non-existing third comment and it was not found. It appears duplicate resources, somewhere, are present. An expert like V.K. is needed to explain.
Another thing that I did was to save a copy of the .DS_Store file so that I can at least recover the comments that way using BBedit or awk. The below results show that the .DS_Store spotlight comments are deleted if new comments are entered for a particular file, but Spotlight finds the file anyway. V.K. previously noted that the spotlight comments are saved in multiple places.
Here are the results:
Last login: Mon Apr 8 07:59:52 on ttys000
opus-2:Fruits jw$ pwd
/Users/Work/Fruits
opus-2:Fruits jw$ xattr -l Radak_2013_ros_exercise_oxstress.pdf
com.apple.FinderInfo:
00000000 50 44 46 20 43 41 52 4F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |PDF CARO........|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment:
00000000 62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 5F 10 2B 6F 78 73 74 72 |bplist00_.+oxstr|
00000010 65 73 73 20 72 6F 73 20 72 65 64 6F 78 20 65 78 |ess ros redox ex|
00000020 65 72 63 69 73 65 20 73 69 67 6E 61 6C 69 6E 67 |ercise signaling|
00000030 20 72 61 64 61 6B 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 | radak..........|
00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 36                             |......6|
00000057
com.apple.quarantine: 0000;5151afb4;PluginProcess.app;
opus-2:Fruits jw$ mdls -name kMDItemFinderComment /Users/Work/Fruits/Radak_2013_ros_exercise_oxstress.pdf
kMDItemFinderComment = "oxstress ros redox exercise signaling radak"
********* below text appears after entering "spotlight_test" into the Spotlight Comments for this particular file   *********
********* n.b.! The old comments were errased    ********
opus-2:Fruits jw$ mdls -name kMDItemFinderComment /Users/Work/Fruits/Radak_2013_ros_exercise_oxstress.pdf
kMDItemFinderComment = "spotlight_test"
opus-2:Fruits jw$ xattr -l Radak_2013_ros_exercise_oxstress.pdf
com.apple.FinderInfo:
00000000 50 44 46 20 43 41 52 4F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |PDF CARO........|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment:
00000000 62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 5E 73 70 6F 74 6C 69 67 |bplist00^spotlig|
00000010 68 74 5F 74 65 73 74 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 |ht_test.........|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 17                          |........|
00000038
com.apple.quarantine: 0000;5151afb4;PluginProcess.app;
opus-2:Fruits jw$
-jano

Spotlight comments search and smart folder fails

Spotlight search of the "Spotlight Comments" field fails after a file is saved in TextEdit or iWork programs.
I reproduced this failure, 100% of the time, in OS X 10.8 and 10.8.1 (with iCloud enabled or with it iCloud disabled) and can not reproduce this failure in Mac OS X 10.7.x
The steps to reproduce are simple and quick:
Create a new test file in TextEdit and Save it on the Mac (saved as, for example, test.rtf)
Quit TextEdit
In the Get Info panel for the test.rtf file and enter some unique text in the Spotlight Comments: field, for example XYZZY:
In Finder create a new Smart Folder (File > New Smart Folder)
Create a search criteria in the Spotlight comment field for the unique text from step 3 (XYZZY in this example) and hit Save and name the Smart FolderNote, the test.rtf file immediately appears in the smart folder
Open the test.rtf with TextEdit and change the text and Save the file.
Note, as soon as you hit Save in TextEdit the test.rtf file disapears from the SmartFolder. This is the error. Also note, the Spotlight Comment value (in this example, the text XYZZY) is unchanged, it still exists.
See attached screen shot after step 7 that shows the smart folder no longer shows the text.rtf file even though the search criteria is met.
I have reproduced this error with TextEdit and Pages and Numbers but not with other applications that are not iCloud enabled.

Clendenen02 wrote:
where should I run the code? in the terminal, or an applescript, or should put it in xcode and run it from there or the terminal.
What MrHoffman said.
But if it's easier, you can wrap it in Automator and have Automator ask for the Folders: (Test on a sample of your files before running on all 700 files)
(do you really own 700 movies??)
The Workflow is:
Put this in the Run Shell Script Action (and pass input as arguments":
PicDir=$1
MovDir=$2
for f in $PicDir/*
do
     if [ ! -d "$f" -a "${f##*.}" = "jpeg" ]; then
          comment=$(mdls -raw -name kMDItemFinderComment "$f")
          if [[ $comment != "(null)" ]]; then
               picname=${f##*/}
               movname=${picname%.*}.m4v
               if [[ -e "$MovDir"/$movname ]]; then
osascript <<-EOF
tell application "Finder"
set comment of file (POSIX file "$MovDir/$movname") to "$comment"
end tell
EOF
               fi
          fi
     fi
done
(BTW, I know that this is a bit of sloppy scripting (wraping an osascript in a Bash Script wrapped in Automator, but it does what you need)

Spotlight Comment to IPTC Field

Hi there,
maybe someone can help me.
i should say that i have absolutely no idea about apple script.
I want to create an automator plugin that takes the spotlight comments of a chosen photo and copies these to an iptc field.
I think the script here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7203132#7203132 would be the right starting point but then there must be some command that uses GraphicConverter or something similar to write to iptc.
Looking forward to your answers, thx in advance
ben

'I want to create an automator plugin that takes the spotlight comments of a chosen photo and copies these to an iptc field. ' - which 'IPTC' field?
As per 'GraphicConverter's AppleScripts' Library's 'GraphicConverter.asdictionary' file - there are:
IPTC caption, IPTC captionwriter, IPTC headline, IPTC specialinstructions, IPTC byline, IPTC bylinetitlee, IPTC credit, IPTC source, IPTC objectname, IPTC datecreated, IPTC city, IPTC state, IPTC country, IPTC reference, IPTC category, IPTC copyright, IPTC urgency, IPTC subcategory, and IPTC keywords
Sample AppleScript code:
-- Code starts here --
on run
open (choose file with multiple selections allowed)
end run
on open (dItems)
repeat with i in dItems
tell application "Finder" to set fComment to comment of i
try
tell application "GraphicConverter"
open i
tell window 1
set IPTC caption to fComment
close saving yes
end tell
end tell
end
end repeat
end open
-- Code ends here --
Save the above code as an application (AppleScript applet). The applet can be double clicked on, or files to be processed - dragged onto it.
Or replace the contents of 'Automator's 'Automator' Library's 'Run AppleScript' Action with ...
-- Code starts here --
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "GraphicConverter" to activate
delay 1.0
repeat with i in input
tell application "Finder" to set fComment to comment of i
try
tell application "GraphicConverter"
open i
tell window 1
set IPTC caption to fComment
close saving yes
end tell
end tell
end
end repeat
return input
end run
-- Code ends here --
Save the above code as an 'Automator' 'Finder' Plug-in.
If any other IPTC parameter is to contain the file's comment entry, then replace 'IPTC caption' in ...
set IPTC caption to fComment
... with the desired IPTC parameter.
The code segments provided above - offers minimal error capturing. One is to assume that only files capable of being opened and (an IPTC parameter) modified by 'GraphicConverter' - are dragged onto the applet, or selected via the 'Automator' 'Finder' Plug-in's contextual menu.

Importing Spotlight Comments

Hi Everyone,
I have around 700 historic photos that have been digitized. All the photo details (dates, etc.) were entered into the Spotlight Comments field under Get Info. Unfortunately, none of the comments appear when I open the photos in Adobe Bridge CS4. I will now start using Bridge to add the metadata tags. However, is there an easy solution (perhaps an Automator script) to export the Spotlight Comments and use them in Bridge? I really don't want to retype the information, and I would be extremely grateful for any advice.
Thank you,
Brian

You most probably require the help of script to do this. Better to ask your Question in that forum. Your Spotlight Comments belong to Finder both AppleScript & Shell can get access to these not too sure about JavaScript. JavaScript would be required to add this info to the correct files.

Automator for Exporting Spotlight Comments?

Hello,
I have around 700 historic photos that have been digitized. All the photo details (dates, etc.) were entered into the Spotlight Comments field under Get Info. Unfortunately, none of the comments appear when I open the photos in Adobe Bridge CS4. Is there an easy solution (perhaps an Automator script) to export the Spotlight Comments and use them elsewhere?
Thank you,
Brian

Brian
If I read you right, what you are trying to do is grab Finder metadata and convert it to photo metadata. Specifically, convert spotlight comments to Exif and IPTC - which is what a Photo app will need.
You can't do this with Automator. The Automator dictionary has ways to set Spotlight Comments but I can see no way to get them. Further the dictionary has the ability to write to the IPTC data only of images in Aperture, not in the Finder or iPhoto.
You might do better with that question on the Automator forum here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1261
Have you tried the Applescript that was suggested when you posted the query last?
As your target are file managed by Bridge, give the Adobe forums a go too.
However, you may run into another issue here and that is that most scanners (as I presume this is how the photos were digitised) do not create Exif and IPTC data for scanned images. It may not be possible to do what you want to do.
Regards
TD

Is it possible to export Spotlight Comments? Please help.

Hello,
I have around 700 historic photos that have been digitized. All the photo details (dates, etc.) were entered into the Spotlight Comments field under Get Info. Unfortunately, none of the comments appear when I open the photos in Adobe Bridge CS4. Is there an easy solution to export the Spotlight Comments and use them elsewhere?
Thank you,
Brian

I found this AppleScript on Google. I cannot vouch for it: I have never tried it and it is several years old. It appears to use GraphicConverter. But you can experiment with it, and see if it works for you.
[http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-76368.html]

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.

"Spotlight Comments" in Finder Get Info window doesn't accept Clipboard contents

I wanted to paste caption and credit info from a NASA video download into the file's Spotlight Comments in the Get Info window. Done it in the past no problemo. Today it doesn't work.
Tried pasting the copied web page content to TextEdit and converting to plain text, copy again, paste still a no-go. Tried typing in the Spotlight Comments window, that works ok. Looked at the contents of the Clipboard and the text appears there, labeled either as rtf or text depending on where the text was pasted from (web or TextEdit).
Tried copying a couple of letters from the converted text, and they pasted ok into Spotlight Comments.
Suggestions to make the Clipboard contents paste?
Thanks.

On further inspection, it appears that the contents of the old Comments field are carried forward into the Spotlight Comments field.

Spotlight/Finder only searching "new" spotlight comments not old ones

I have a bunch of files on my external hard drive that I had taken several hours to "tag" with spotlight comments a few months back. I tagged them so I could quickly find them in Finder or Spotlight by different key words and not just file names or their contents (folders wouldn't work because the keywords overlapped many of the files. Plus folders are slow). It worked beautifully. Until I stopped adding tags for those 4 months until now.
I hadn't been using my comments at all in the past couple of months, but i had some files that I hadn't tagged so I decided to take the time to tag all the new ones. While testing to see if the comments worked, I noticed an extreme shortage of results, compared to the results i had for the same key words 4 months ago. I noticed that only the newly tagged files were showing up. I immediately checked the old files to see if the comments were still there and there they were. I restarted my MacBook Pro, thinking that maybe it was because I hadn't done so in the past few days. I noticed the little dot in the lens of they eyeglass and thought "oh boy! it'll reindex everything!" but it only indexed "new" files of course.
So my question is: "*How did this happen?*" But more importantly: "*+How can I fix it?+*"
I've thought that forcing spotlight to reindex my entire external hard drive would do the trick, but I cannot find any means to achieve that goal. Plus, I would rather just be able to index the files within one folder as I wouldn't have to wait an entire day of sluggish performance for that. Any ideas?

Let me start with the "easy" question first: the .DS_Store files are where "Finder information" is stored. Windows users find these things a pain in neck, and usually insist they be deleted. Most of time this isn't a problem, the Mac users just get annoyed when their folder doesn't open the way it was when last closed--the principle information stored there is the view the folder was told to keep, the size of the icons and their arrangement, and so on. Every time you open a folder a .DS_Store file created if one does not already exist, and if one does the file will be updated if you change your settings for the folder, for instance switch it to List view, tell it to always open in List view, with columns for Date Modified, Size, but not Kind or Date Created. And it also keeps the information entered in Spotlight Comments. Just how Finder preserves this information if a file is moved, in Mac OS, to another folder, I don't know. But it does.
What we REALLY need is a nice little program to write to the metadata of the file. For instance, Spotlight will index keywords, which are stored in the file itself, as part of the file's metadata. I mainly work with graphics, and Photoshop allows you to add keywords to the file's metadata. Apple's iPhoto and Aperture will also add keywords, but they are not written to a file's metadata until you export them. PDFs can also have keywords assigned, you can even do it with Preview. Text documents can also have keywords added using some (most?) text editors, including TextEdit (provided the file is in RTF format). The nice thing about keyword metadata is that it goes with the file, and be accessed in any OS that allows a metadata search.
Unfortunately I don't know of any program that would allow you to select a batch of miscellaneous files and add the same keyword to all of them. It would certainly be handy though.
Francine
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Schwieder

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