| Re: Left side results [message #1996 is a reply to message #1995] |
Mon, 23 March 2026 09:33   |
FoxTrot Engineering
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Just untick the checkbox on the header of the categorizers you don't use, and they will stay collapsed. Furthermore, the last categorizers used will always appear above those you never used.
The "tags" categorizer shows the tags assigned from the Finder.
"Author" is a Spotlight metadata attribute (or actually a concatenation of several Spotlight attributes), whose value depends on the file type. It may have been explicitly defined by the person who created the document, or it could be assigned automatically from the name of the macOS account etc. Those attributes are:
kMDItemAuthors
kMDItemContactKeywords
kMDItemComposer
kMDItemLyricist
kMDItemOrganizations
kMDItemPhoneNumbers
kMDItemEmailAddresses
kMDItemInstantMessageAddresses
kMDItemRecipients
kMDItemPhoneNumbers
"Main Language" is the language that has been automatically identified when indexing the document.
"Date" is either the file modification date, or its creation date (you can toggle using the gear popup menu on the right).
Note that FoxTrot always uses the metadata values at indexation time; i.e. if you change the tags of a file from the Finder, you will need to update your index afterwards. Also, you can't arbitrarily change these metadata (except for the Finder tags), they are usually derived from the file contents by Spotlight importers.
Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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