Spotlight Comments No Showing Up in Get Info

Question

I moved thousands of video files to new folders (Drag & Drop Method). Now the spotlight comments for the files are no longer showing up in the get info window. I'm devastated because the comments contained critical information about the video. Without the comments, the organization of the files is a mess. I have no idea how to fix this problem.

Answer 1

ok, this shows that the spotlight comment "the Kat" is retained in spotlight database as it's recorded in the kMDItemFinderComment field. then the problem is likely corruption of the .DS_store files for the folders containing those files. I really don't know why this happens and what's the proper way of dealing with this but I made the following workaround for the same problem while helping someone else in the past
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10549447
paste the following into AppleScript Editor
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "Finder"
set mlist to selection
set curfolder to item 1 of mlist
repeat with this_item in entire contents of curfolder
set ppath to quoted form of POSIX path of (this_item as alias)
set comment of this_item to (do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemFinderComment " & ppath & "| awk -F\\\"  '{print $2}'") 
end repeat
end tell</pre>
select the folder containing all those items (they can be in subfolders) and press 'run" in applescript editor.
Message was edited by: V.K.