{"id":91815,"date":"2025-11-03T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91815"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:16:04","slug":"why-spotlight-cant-spot-spotlights-service-was-using-a-completely-different-method-to-check-the-type-of-the-contents-the-magic-database-used-by-the-file1-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91815","title":{"rendered":"Why Spotlight can&#8217;t spot: &#8220;Spotlight\u2019s service was using a completely different method to check the type of the contents, the \u2018magic\u2019 database used by the file(1) command.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/10\/26\/last-week-on-my-mac-why-spotlight-cant-find-some-files\/\">https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/10\/26\/last-week-on-my-mac-why-spotlight-cant-find-some-files\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A completely horked and kludgy code base would explain a lot about Spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/10\/26\/last-week-on-my-mac-why-spotlight-cant-find-some-files\/ A completely horked and kludgy code base would explain a lot about Spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-91815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91816,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91815\/revisions\/91816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}