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by Jaepa 3454 days ago
Alfred piggybacks on spotlight's metadata index for finding a file, how does the file finder for this work?

This looks great. I've been debating on building my own tool for this. I'll try and contribute some code to this.

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Yes, since the first file finder needed to be cross platform I create a cache in the plugin, but a mac specific one would be great! :D

Technically it spins up another process and recursively goes through a whitelisted set of directories. It caches just the app locations, not all the files.

Hmmm alright interesting. I'll look at this when I get off work. Thank you for the reply.