Metadata and Spotlight equals filing system
Lifehacker shows us how
we can just dump all our files into the 'Documents' folder and still find things very quickly. What sort of black magic
do you have to use? Why, just a little Spotlight and some 'tagging.' You tag your files by inserting relevant
information into the comments section of each file (if you do a 'Get Info' on a file that you have on your desktop, or
anywhere else, you'll notice that there is a comments section). Now, it wouldn't be cool if you had to do this
manually, but read the article and you will find out a few tips to make tagging easy as pie. Mmm, metadata pie.
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Lifehacker shows us how we can just dump all our files into the 'Documents' folder and still find things very quickly. What sort of black...
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Gijs
I wrote a folder action script to make tagging your file easy. The script also automatically makes Smaart Folder Searches for your Tags. Try it out!
http://scriptbuilders.net/files/tagger0.3b.html
Bryce Hardy
The method of tagging files with Spotlight comments and then setting up Smart Folders doesn't work on my 10.4.6 system. Here's the link to my post on the Apple Forums about it. None of the suggestions succeeded.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=454632&tstart=0
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