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Jon Stovell
Tag Folders are Smart Folders with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Smart Folders can find a file anywhere on your computer. Regular folders let you organize your files with ease. Tag Folders do both.
Drop any file onto a Tag Folder, and it will immediately be tagged to match the Tag Folder's search criteria. Open the Tag Folder, and every file with that tag appears in a Finder window, available for use.
Smart Folders can find a file anywhere on your computer. Regular folders let you organize your files with ease. Tag Folders do both.
Drop any file onto a Tag Folder, and it will immediately be tagged to match the Tag Folder's search criteria. Open the Tag Folder, and every file with that tag appears in a Finder window, available for use.
What's New
Version 2.6:
- Fixes a bug that could cause Tag Folders to claim incorrectly that OpenMeta was not installed and suggest reinstalling.
- Fixes a bug that prevented tags from being listed in dialog boxes on non-English localizations.
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
| Downloads:30,475 |
| Version Downloads:3,575 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Free |
| Date:22 Jul 2010 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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Tag Folders are Smart Folders with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Smart Folders can find a file anywhere on your computer. Regular folders let you organize your files with ease. Tag Folders do both.
Drop any file onto a Tag Folder, and it will immediately be tagged to match the Tag Folder's search criteria. Open the Tag Folder, and every file with that tag appears in a Finder window, available for use.
Smart Folders can find a file anywhere on your computer. Regular folders let you organize your files with ease. Tag Folders do both.
Drop any file onto a Tag Folder, and it will immediately be tagged to match the Tag Folder's search criteria. Open the Tag Folder, and every file with that tag appears in a Finder window, available for use.
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Unfortunately, it seems that Lion has made changes to Smart Folders that cause Tag Folders to break. As some of you may have noticed, I have not been very active for some time on this software. The amount of time it would take to update Tag Folders to work with Lion while also maintaining backwards compatibility with Snow Leopard and below is simply more than I can spare at this time in my life. Therefore, I'm afraid I must end my work on Tag Folders.
If anyone wants to take up development of the software, please do! It is, after all, GPL software. If you do, please post a link to your new and improved version here on MacUpdate so that we can all find it.
For those of you still running Snow Leopard and below, the software will continue to work as is. For those of you upgrading to Lion, I recommend looking into other OpenMeta software. You can get a list of such software at http://code.google.com/p/openmeta/wiki/OpenMetaApplications. I personally enjoy Ali Rantakari's Tagger and TagLists.
Thanks again to everyone who used Tag Folders, and even more thanks to all of you who reported bugs, suggested new ideas, submitted fixes, and so on. Without you, this software would never have been a fraction as useful as it was. Cheers to you all, and happy tagging!
Jon
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Fontbot reviewed on 17 Jan 2011
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Sebastian_szwarc reviewed on 27 Dec 2010
It's also difficult to see omtags set by other applications, after installation we start with empty list of tags - very frustrating.
Need to wait if you want to use it seriously.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/addspotlightcom/
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Now, if Spotlight comments alone are enough for you, and you've found an interface that works for you, then by all means use it. If you need to go beyond the basics, however, you'll want to look into OpenMeta-based options. Tag Folders is only one of them; many others can be found at http://code.google.com/p/openmeta/wiki/OpenMetaApplications.
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Fixed now. :)
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Sometime this afternoon the zip file somehow became 0 B in length instead of its proper 3.3 MB, causing the download to be just an empty file. I've uploaded another copy now, and it seems to be downloading properly. If there are any more problems, email me at tag-folders@googlegroups.com
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http://groups.google.com/group/tag-folders
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I like the idea of this product, but the automatic tagging doesn't seem to be working. I'm using 10.5.4
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During testing I noticed that occasionally files on the Desktop would have the tag applied to their Spotlight comments, but it would take a few minutes for the change to be reflected in the Spotlight database, and thus for the file to show up in the Tag Folder's Smart Folder. This always cleared itself up after a few minutes on the occasions it happened. If you want an immediate fix, temporarily moving the file into another folder typically does the job.
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the origin message was in chinese so i tryed to translate it.
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unable to set
"property list file "~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.jonstovell.TagFolders.tagprompter.plist""
to
"{"osascript","/Applications/TagPrompter.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/TagPrompterScript.scpt"}"
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i was trying to test version 1.2 today.
Seems like the Install Tag Folders.app has a serious problem. In my case i just get a dialog which is higher then my entire screen displaying permission denies for each copy operation in your script.
So it looks for me like your installer script is not able to offer a password dialog if a non-admin users tries to run the installer.
Most apps do offer a authentification dialog if a non-admin user tries to install something.
Advantage: users can keep non-admins and just use an admin-account for installations without being forced to swtich to that admin account.
At least that is what it looks like at the moment for me.
Feel free to contact me if you need screenshots about that problem or anything else.
best regards
fidel
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Just-Mac rated on 07 Aug 2012