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OS X Support Essentials 10.11 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X El Capitan
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OS X Support Essentials 10.11 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X El Capitan

by Kevin M. White, Gordon Davisson
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
936 pages
23h 59m
English
Peachpit Press
Content preview from OS X Support Essentials 10.11 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X El Capitan

Lesson 14Use Metadata and Spotlight

GOALS

Understand how OS X stores and uses file metadata

Use metadata, such as 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 permissions. These metadata objects are not part of the item’s content, yet they are necessary to describe the item in the file system. OS X has used several types of additional file system metadata for a variety of technologies that ultimately lead to a richer user experience. As of OS X Mavericks ...

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