On Mar 16, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Bryon Thomas wrote:
I just did an erase and install of OSX 10.5 and then installed Quicksilver B54. I have pointed the File Tagging Module (ver. 73) to my folder of docs (~ 1,000), which were tagged using QS on my previous OSX installation. Now, my previously list of tags does not appear in QS. Is there a way to populate the tags from the docs in my docs folder in my new installation of QS? If not, how do you suggest I create my previous tag list in QS?
If you erased and installed, how did your docs get there? Did you just copy them from someplace? If so that could be the problem. QS's tags (and many other tag systems for mac) store the tags in the Spotlight comments. Unfortunately, many of the copy commands copy the file contents but not the 'metadata' which would include spotlight comments. The way to check is to select one of the files you know you tagged in finder and do Get Info (from the File menu or using command- I). If the comments field is blank, the files no longer have tags associated with them.
If they do have the tags, then I don't know why the new installation of QS wouldn't be displaying them.
It's a flaw but it comes from the fact that the copy commands existed before apple added metadata to files. See this article for some more info.
http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x/ Howard
