Howard-- I've been buried and am just now getting back to this. I checked the copied files and fortunately they contain the metadata. I did a manual rescan of the catalog (again) and now the tags appear. I'm up and running again with Quicksilver and tagging. Many thanks.
Bryon On Mar 16, 10:12 am, Howard Melman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-clo... > > Howard
