Hallo friends!
I found this very cool solution!
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8000165?answerId=31936614022
But I need some more help on that. That script works for me so far, but I would like to have that the script will tag a file inside the tagged folder too and a filter what kind(s) I would like to tag.
I hope somebody understand what I want :-)
Thanks so far!
Mac Pro, macOS 10.14
Tag folder hierarchy containing valid movies. Remove Automator's Run AppleScript action boiler plate code before pasting the following:
Tag folder hierarchy containing valid movies. Remove Automator's Run AppleScript action boiler plate code before pasting the following:
I haven't abandoned this. I felt that if there was a large scrollable list of custom tags presented, without any reference of name to individual assigned colors, that there might be a need to see both.
Accordingly, I now have the Finder Preferences : Tags listing in color, and the AppleScript text list of tag names concurrently displayed so list tag names have a visual color reference. Both on screen windows are scrollable and independent of one another. As soon as you select one or more tags from the AppleScript list, both windows vanish.
Now, to address prompting for a folder, obtaining its hierarchy, excluding files that match the extension exclusion, and setting the tag(s) on that folder and its allowable contents.
That Automator Folder Action script that I wrote — tags items dropped into the Downloads folder with the pre-defined Finder tagname "download." It does not tag the folder that the Folder Action is assigned too. You could do that yourself.
It is possible to generate a list of all defined tagnames, and present that to you as a selection from which you can 1) take a default item by pressing return, or 2) select one or more tagnames to be applied to the specific dropped item.
Provide a list of file types that you want to filter during the tag process and I can incorporate that into the existing code too.
Thats sounds interesting and useful too, how to do it? I am new in that stuff.
My situation:
So like I have a Folder called movie, I drop a folder with the name "movie 2010" inside, your script is tagging that as like "new movie" but the inside file like movie 2010.mp4 do not touched by your script but I would like to have it too, but a file like "poster.jpg" also inside of the folder "movie 2010" should be ignored. So filter by ext like mp4 or mkv or so would help.
So we have two ways I think would be very interesting.
Once possibility is an application (not folder action) that prompts you for the folder, and then it can tag that folder, and get the contents of that folder (including other folders and files) that also can be tagged — and which are not on an exclusion list of extensions. A mouthful, but doable. Just not today.
Folder actions are not recursive within the target folder that the action is assigned too. Only first level files and folders are affected once dropped.
Ok I did not know that. Is there another possibility to make it happen?
Own finder tags as script for automator.
