On Oct 17, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> We're in the process of making a new File Tagging plugin, (well, Rob has 
> already done most of it)

Most of it, nothin’! It’s ready as far as I’m concerned. :-)

There is a more official way to set tags available in 10.9, so we’ll surely 
want to take advantage eventually, but it works as is.

On Oct 17, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Ian uɐI <[email protected]> wrote:

> The idea of having two plugins seems a bit awkward for us users. Because the 
> OpenMeta and Mavericks tag is almost identical, having the new plugin set 
> both in Mavericks means that those tags will be backwards tag compatible < 
> 10.9 -- so if you dropbox sync your tagged files between a 10.8 and 10.9 
> machine you can use openmeta on 10.8 and Mavericks on 10.9). This would seem 
> to obviate the need for the user to "choose" which tagging mechanism they 
> will employ.

Personally, I think that’s an edge case, and a temporary one at that. Not worth 
the effort. But anyone who disagrees strongly enough has both plug-ins to copy 
code from. :-)

> It seems that Ironic software apps like Leap will auto convert all openmeta 
> tags to Mavericks, as will Houdahspot. For anyone who wants to hack this 
> manually, there is a shell script available to do so:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/Zettt/5880737
> 
> When you have tagged files scattered over many directories it would be nice 
> to search by tag first, then convert, rather than do this by directory, I 
> suspect the mechanisms to smart update openmeta tags will improve once 
> Mavericks gets into the wild.

I started on a Python script to do this, but didn’t get very far. I assume 
someone will beat me to it. I found that Gist and, like you, wondered why the 
hell you would work on directories instead of just searching by tag.

-- 
Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>

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