Questions tagged [finder-tag]
Tags in Finder allows the user to class files and folders with a little colored tag.
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Tagged items not appearing correctly in Mavericks?
I'm running OS X 10.9.5. Recently, I used Handbrake 0.9.9 x86_64 (2013051800) to convert some WMVs to MP4s. There are roughly 150 videos, and I have attempted to tag them all. When in their respective ...
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Creating and modifying tags hangs Finder in OS X 10.9 Mavericks
When I create or modify a tag in Finder on Mavericks, the Finder application stalls with a spinning beach ball and cpu goes up to 100% usage for a while (from 30 secs to 2 minutes).
I've found that ...
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Finder doesn't show files tagged on network drive
I have a Western Digital NAS and I've noticed that if I tag any files/folders stored on it, the Finder never shows them when I select a tag in the sidebar.
For example, if I add a tag called Work to ...
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How can I change Finder tag name or color?
There are some tags in Finder by default. I want rename their name from color. How can I do this?
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using file tags on OS X and windows
I use file tags in OS X 10.9.3 and I love it.
However, I store and access many of the same files on an external drive that I also access with a Windows computer.
Is there a way to see or search for ...
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Are there alternative ways to interface with Mavericks tags?
My company hosts quite a large amount of reference material (images, video, pdfs) on a server, and we're looking for a good way to organize these assets by tags. Searching for these tags in Finder is ...
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Add and remove multiple tags at once from a file or a folder
Using OS X Mavericks I want to add multiple tags at once to a file or a folder and I also want to remove multiple tags at once. There are different ways to add tags to a file, one of them would be to ...
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How to tag files (with Finder tags) using parts of a file name?
I want to use parts of a file name to add specific Finder tags to a file. How can I do that, are there any scripts or applications available to automate this on OS X Mavericks? The only solution I can ...
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How do I remove Finder tags from all files in a folder and its subfolders?
How can I remove Finder tags from all files in a given folder and in its subfolders?
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Can Launchbar tag files?
I have LaunchBar auto select anything that is dropped into my downloads folder. I wanted to run a Hazel rule but only on files with a certain tag and I want to do this with LaunchBar.
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How many combinations of tags are there for a file?
With the advent of Mavericks, files don't have only labels, they have tags. You can still use it just like labels (and have the classical 'work', 'home', 'urgent', 'to file', ... tags), but it is more ...
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Folder /label highlighting in Mavericks 10.9
I used the tags / label color highlighting feature in the past OS's extensively to order my folders. Now I've changed to 10.9 they seem to have all changed to a little dot, which is not as easy to see....
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Can I tag a file from Quick Look?
I'd be able to very quickly tag a bunch of photos for later processing.
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Automatically categorize downloads?
Usually, when I download something, I need to take a template action on it, depending on the file type. Mp3 files get imported to iTunes, wav and rex files to the sample folders, zips get unzipped (...
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Spotlight in Mavericks does not search Tags - how to enable?
I have defined a couple of tags in Mavericks. If I search inside Finder, tags work as expected:
It recognizes that "Firma" is a tag.
If I select it and press enter, it turns into "Tag:Firma".
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Are tags portable, and if so how?
I am a relatively new Mac user, recently bought a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.1.
I see that there are tagging capabilities within the file system. I'm concerned about portability. If I get a new ...
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Applying finder tags to applications - What are the consequences?
I'm trying to put Maveric's new feature - Finder Tags - to a good use, so I have a bunch of installed applications, some I have read/write permissions but for some others I don't (All apps installed ...
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Bug with the automator action "rotate an image" and tags
I have the following bug.
I have created a small app that rotates an image, with the help of automator.
But when I apply this action to a file with tags, it removes all the tags of the file (by tag, ...
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Limit the scope of tag search in Finder on Mavericks
I have a fairly extensive file system with a large collection of images and a duplicate disc of those images and, additionally, some folders with images that are in process of some workflow.
I have ...
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Using Maverick's tags on Mountain Lion
I have multiple macs accessing same data on a common disk (a time-capsule shared disk). The problem is that one of those macs couldn't be upgraded do Mavericks (it's running Lion).
Is there any app ...
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Add Spotlight Comments without tags on OS X Mavericks
I would like to add comments to files or folders. On previous OS X versions, there would be a text field to add comments that become searchable via Spotlight.
Now, in OS X 10.9 Mavericks the text ...
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List all tags in Terminal in Mavericks?
Is it feasible to list all tags already defined in OS X in Terminal?
I know there are some third-party applications that list all tags, but I just want to use Terminal to find all tags, since I use ...
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Save the URL in Finder as a bookmark via Automator
Since the possibility to tag files in Mavericks, I save my bookmarks in Finder to be able to tag them and find them later more quickly.
To do this I simply drag the URL in Safari to a my bookmarks ...
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Can't add tag to apache config or log files
In OS X X.9 Mavericks, I'd like to add a colored tag to my apache config file, which is under /private/etc/apache2, and to my apache log files, which are under /priavte/var/log
I do not have the ...
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Possible to tag a folder via terminal?
Is it possible to tag a file or folder in mavericks via terminal command?
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How to make the tags appear the old way on Mavericks? [duplicate]
Is there a way to make the folders tagged in any color (red, blue, purple, etc.) appear in a more visible way than the OSX 10.9 way?
For instance, on OSX 10.8, the whole title of the item was colored....
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How to list all untagged files in Mavericks Finder?
I'm trying to start using Mavericks tagging system, even though it has its bugs…
I'm also evaluating Yep to better organize my docs, but maybe I can do without, if I can find how to display all the ...
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Finder in Mavericks will not tag files on network drives
Is there a workaround? How can I fix this?
These files are on SMB shares to Windows servers with a NTFS file system. Is there a better way to connect to windows shares? Please guide as I am new to the ...
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How to enable missing tag search in Spotlight?
OS X Mavericks adds better support for tags. You can search tagged files using Spotlight with the query tag:tagname.
However, this stopped working for me a few days after upgrading form OS X ...
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Can I revert to the Mountain Lion style labels instead of Mavericks tags? How?
I don't like the almost invisible little colored dots (tags) that have replaced the full-length color highlighted labels used in Mountain Lion. Is there a way to go back to using full-field labels?
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How can I hide file tags?
I'm tagging USB and network drives in Mavericks, and I would like the tags to disappear from my Mac when the drives are disconnected. Is this possible?
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OS X Finder hangs on tagging
I'm having a problem with the new tagging feature in Mavericks and I have a feeling it might go deeper than just the tagging.
The problem is this:
When tagging anything on Mavericks the Finder ...
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Mavericks Tag colors
Does anyone know how to make new tags with custom colours?
It is clear how to change colours to a predefined set of available colours, but I have no idea how to change to a custom colour. (With the ...
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Tagging of symlinks
Is it possible to tag a symlink using the new OS X Mavericks tagging functionality (old labels functionality)?
When I select a symlink in Finder, File => Tags... option is grayed-out.
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Keep iCloud from syncing tags across machines?
I recently upgraded to OS X 10.9 (Yay!), and I've been playing with Tags. After I installed it on a second machine, though, I noticed that all my tags were synced across (just the list of tags, not ...
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Finder Search attribute "Tags"
It looks like the search attribute "Tags" is no longer available in the Mountain Lion Finder. I used this to quickly find Open Meta Taggged files on my Mac by means of a Smart Folder. Is there an ...
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Adding tags to files in OS X: How to use, where are tags stored, and will they work on a network?
I've heard it is possible to add tags to a file's meta data in OS X, and have Spotlight search through such tags.
In a nutshell, how would one access this feature in Finder – not Spotlight (...
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