An AppleScript application (with a ridiculously unimaginative name) for managing Spotlight comments.
Drag it to your Finder toolbar to quickly add, edit, replace and remove Spotlight comments. It's got a few odd bugs, mostly related to listing comments for removal or editing, but nothing that prevents using it.
The easiest way to do this is to drop the script file into your ~/Library/Scripts folder and run it from the Script menu in the menu bar. To enable the Script menu, open AppleScript Editor (/Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor.app) and enable the option for "Show Script menu in menu bar" in the AppleScript Editor's preferences window.
Open the script in AppleScript Editor and select "Application" from the Save As menu. From there, there are a couple extra steps.
- Add the icon file to the Resources folder
Right-click your application file and select "Show Package Contents". Open the Contents/Resources folder and drag the included .icns file (or your own, whatever) into this folder. Go ahead and copy the filename to the clipboard. - Alter the icon file key in the plist to enable the icon file.
In the Contents folder is your Info.plist file. Open this file in your editor of choice and find theCFBundleIconFilekey. Change the associated<string>entry (directly after<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>) to reflect the name of your icon file (without the file extension). If you've used the included icon file, your plist file should read:
<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
<string>update-comments</string>
Keep that plist file open, dawg...
2. Add a key to the plist file so the dock icon will remain hidden.
In order to keep New File from showing a dock icon (which, IMHO is dumb and pointless for this type of application), you need to add the following to the plist file:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
Sometimes, when listing comments to remove/replace, comments are duplicated or not listed.