Good evening!
Through a software bug I had more than 70.000 tags in Finder which made the Finder irresponsive and Save and open dialogues not usable anymore. I was able to delete most of them but 550 tags remain which I can't delete. Some contain quotation marks, umlauts and apostrophes but most of them seem to be normal text (see screenshot attached). Any ideas how to delete these as well?
Thank you
Detlef
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
These files have extended attributes which you can see in a Terminal.app window with the command:
ls -lae@ filename
You can remove extended attributes with the command using the "xattr" command -- do a "man xattr" for help in using the command.
Good luck...
I just got off the phone with Apple support. The solution is to delete the tags with special characters in the application from which they originally came. In my case this was Devonthink 3.
Thank you, dot.com. The response of Terminal is:
Detlefs-MBP-15:~ detlefotten$ ls -lae@ filename
ls: filename: No such file or directory
Thank you for additional help.
Tags cannot be deleted in Finder preferences
