Lesson 16. Metadata and Spotlight

Goals

Image Understand how OS X stores and uses file metadata

Image Use metadata, like tags and comments, to organize your files

Image 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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