How to Use Tags to Organize Files and Folders in macOS

[harriska2]

If only, the tag can be used and searched in external drives. If only, there is a way to search external drive files.

The way finder search says "Searching "This Mac"" and then moves to the Location of Mac on the sidebar is very misleading. When searching for blue tags it actually does search through my external drive where I store pretty much all my files.

 

[macintoshmac]

I am aware I am raking up an old thread, but did not want to create a new thread for a simple question - do Finder Tags sync to iCloud, to enable me to get them back when I reinstall the OS or change computers?

 

[Lone Deranger]

Does anybody have any tips for batch tagging files? I have a list of about 50-60 custom tags for categorising my photo reference library. Going through the library and manually multi-tagging every file but hand is extremely labor intensive. I tried to find a 3rd party app that specialises in speeding this process up, but the search hasn't come up with much so far.

 

[chucker23n1]

Does anybody have any tips for batch tagging files? I have a list of about 50-60 custom tags for categorising my photo reference library. Going through the library and manually multi-tagging every file but hand is extremely labor intensive. I tried to find a 3rd party app that specialises in speeding this process up, but the search hasn't come up with much so far.

No experience, but I imagine a tool like https://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/index.html or maybe https://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/ might help.

Finder has built-in batch rename, but its batch-tagging is perhaps too simple for your needs.

 

[Lone Deranger]

No experience, but I imagine a tool like https://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/index.html or maybe https://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/ might help.

Finder has built-in batch rename, but its batch-tagging is perhaps too simple for your needs.

Thank you Chucker23n1. I hadn't heard of these two apps before. I'll check them out and see if they can help in any way.

It seems a bit strange to me that there is no specific app for this yet. Maybe macOS tags aren't very widely used.

 

[timelessbeing]

I love tags.
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