Spotlight comments have vanished since Lion

Question

I'm astonished to find that all my Spotlight comments are missing since I upgraded to Lion. For example I have a folder called Published pdfs and the spotlight comment for each file was the name of the periodical in which it appeared. All gone. Anybody have any idea what's going on? Any similar experiences? Thanks.

Answer 1

OK. The easiest way is to use the TAB key to automatically expand the file path or to use quotes
Click on the file you want and do Command-I to see its path.
For example
/Users/rshs/Documents/My File.txt
You can do a couple of things:
$ cd "/Users/rshs/Documents/"    (you can copy straight out of the Get Info; cd = change directory)
$ mdls M [hit the TAB key  so that it expands] etc.
Or you can just do it from the beginning using the TAB key
$ mdls /Us[TAB]r[TAB]d[TAB]
etc.
Don't type the $,
You'll see what I mean about the tab when you try it.
If your file name has a space, you'll need to do \ then a space, but usually the TAB key will take care of it anyway. If you get a beep, you need to type a couple of extra letters:
cat
coat
c[TAB] won't do anything but ca[TAB] will expand to cat
You can TAB to expand the commands such as
mdls
but you'll usually need to type the first 2 or 3 letters.