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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

July 01 2006 at 8:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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

April 29 2006 at 11:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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