Finder Tags: I can't tag the apps of Apple and installed from Mac App Store!

[gusbemac]

Hello,

At Finder, I was able to tag the apps which were installed outside of Mac App Store as "Apps", but I can't tag the apps of Apple and installed from Mac App Store, they are locked, I added the administrator and username powers to the apps to unlock them, I tried to tag them, but I couldn't. :-(

How to hack it to tag them?

If you can help me, thank you!

 

[w0lf]

I would Imagine you could use terminal, not 100% sure on this but it might work.

1) In terminal

sudo mv /Applications/Maps.app ~/Desktop/Maps.app
open -R ~/Desktop/Maps.app

2) In Finder

set the tag as desired

3) In terminal

sudo mv ~/Desktop/Maps.app /Applications/Maps.app

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Or

1) Set tags on a dummy file to what you want on your System App.
2)

xattr -wx com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags \
             "`xattr -px com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags "/PATH_TO_DUMMY_FILE/"`" "/Applications/NAME_OF_APPLE_APP"

That should copy the tags from the dummy and apply them to the system app.