Lesson 16. Metadata and Spotlight
Goals
Understand how OS X stores and uses file metadata
Use metadata, like tags and comments, to organize your files
Leverage file metadata by using Spotlight for advanced searching
Metadata is data about data. More specifically, metadata is information used to describe content. The most basic forms of file and folder metadata employed by nearly every operating system are names, paths, modification dates, and ...
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