2 posts tagged “mac”

About a week ago iCal started giving me an error whenever I would try and accept a meeting invite. The error was sporadic, only happening about half the time:

Someone invited you to an event using an email address that isn’t on your “me” card in Address Book. Find your email address in the following list and add it to your card in Address Book.

Unfortunately there were no email addresses "following"; that was the end of the error dialog.

I checked the "to" fields in the .ics file and sure enough my email address was listed. I looked at another .ics file that did work and could find no significant differences between the two. Eventually, in true monkey-banging-on-a-keyboard style, I stumbled upon the fact that I had two different cards in Address Book for myself, both with the same email addresses. I deleted the redundant card and haven't seen the problem since.

I tried SpotlightFS for a while yesterday and was unfortunately not that impressed. It's a nice concept, but still needs work. You are limited to multi-word searches (no booleans) so it's difficult to refine the results such that they are useful. Example:

[1133][jchilders@Ivan:/Volumes/SpotlightFS/cocoa]$ ls

:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:brush.h
:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:button.h
:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:checkbox.h
:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:checklst.h
:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:choice.h
:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:clipbrd.h
....
[snip]

So.. interesting, but not there yet. At least the regular Spotlight window groups your search results by type. As far as I can tell with SpotlightFS there is no way to refine your results beyond simple keywords. Also, you cannot open files directly from within the SpotlightFS directory, which almost defeats the purpose of having it.

This is an interesting experiment, and I'll keep an eye on it, but as it exists right now it's not particularly useful on a day-to-day basis.