“HD:Users:me:Work:company:to read:8 O045 SAM Service (L)-(Mode) Guide R10 ISSUE1.00.docx”
“HD:Users:me:Work:company:to read:4 035 LAS L2+ Service(Mode) R0 ISSUE2.00 (s+n).ppt”
These are company files, so I obfuscated the filenames but leaving spacing and special characters.
It could be it’s MS warez. I tried adding the enclosing folder to Spotlight Preferences’ Privacy list, then deleting it from there and Console immediately logged
Can anyone try with some doc or ppt files?
@ msh
Thank you.
I see no special character in the file names so I’m always puzzled.
I assume that you have more than one docx file and more than one ppt one so although I dislike Merdosoft I don’t think that there may be a link between this company and the problem.
Yvan KOENIG running Sierra 10.12.6 in French (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 3 aout 2017 17:39:13
There seems to be a problem with the mdimporter and those files.
Fwiw, I rebuilt the metadata stores with mdutil -E / and still get those same false positives. Oh well…
All Finder scripts for removing dead Finder file aliases that I have found on the net and in AppleScript books contain one major error: they do not take into account that the Trash folder may be contained within a folder of the user’s choice. For example, inside the user’s home folder … And an attempt to delete an already deleted (trashed) Finder file alias results in a script error.
Second: logically, the search should be recursive.
To permanently get rid of hundreds of “dead” file aliases (usually created by OS and applications), I wrote the following Finder script. Here it is:
set cleaned_Aliases to 0
set cleaned_alias_files_list to {}
set theFolder to choose folder default location (path to home folder)
set theTrash to (path to trash) as text
tell application "Finder"
set theTrash to folder theTrash
with timeout of 1800 seconds -- takes a while for big folders like home folder
set alias_List to every alias file of entire contents of theFolder
end timeout
if alias_List is {} then return
repeat with i from 1 to count alias_List
set the_alias_file_ref to item i of alias_List
-- avoid situation when attempt to delete from the Trash
if not (container of the_alias_file_ref) is theTrash then
-- check if exists original item for current Finder alias
if not (exists original item of the_alias_file_ref) then
try
set theAliasAsText to the_alias_file_ref as text
move the_alias_file_ref to trash
set cleaned_Aliases to cleaned_Aliases + 1
set end of cleaned_alias_files_list to theAliasAsText
end try
end if
end if
end repeat
end tell
return {cleaned_Aliases, cleaned_alias_files_list}
– Result – > 702 !!! dead aliases was found and deleted in my home directory