Integrating with Spotlight
The issue, as mentioned, is one of multiple files. Ideally, for our recipe application, we want one Spotlight “record” for each recipe in our Core Data repository. For Spotlight to work properly, we’d need one file on the disk for each recipe, along with its associated metadata. Therefore, to make Spotlight happy, we’ll do exactly that. However, since all our data is being stored in a Core Data repository, there’s no reason to store any data in these files. These additional files exist purely for Spotlight (and Quick Look) to utilize. Since Spotlight doesn’t need any data in the files to work (it just needs metadata), we’ll create very simple files and link them back to our Core Data repository.
The other gotcha with ...
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