Lesson 16

Use Metadata, Siri, and Spotlight

Goals

  • images Describe how macOS stores and uses file metadata

  • images Use metadata, such as tags and comments, to organize your files

  • images Use Siri and Spotlight 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 ...

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