Lesson 16. Use Metadata, Spotlight, and Siri
Goals
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Describe how macOS stores and uses file metadata
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Use metadata, such as tags and comments, to organize your files
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Use Spotlight and Siri to search for local and Internet resources
Metadata is information used to describe content. The most basic forms of file and folder metadata are names, paths, modification dates, and permissions. Metadata isn’t part of an item’s content; rather, it describes an item in the file system.
In this lesson you learn how macOS uses file metadata and how this metadata is stored in file systems. You learn how to take advantage of metadata by using the file-system tags feature. And you learn how to use Siri and Spotlight to search.
Reference 16.1 File-System ...
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