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I need more tags than the 7 colors that come with macOS Monterey. Is there a way I can add more colors? Can I add other symbols? Are there any other options? It needs to be visual. Behind the scenes coding like creating a green A, B & C won't work, unless it's clear, by looking at the tab, as it appears next to the file name, that the tab is the green A or the green B, etc.

iMac 24″, macOS 12.2

Posted on Apr 26, 2022 6:52 AM

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Posted on Apr 26, 2022 9:48 AM

What dialabrain said. Tags are a Finder extended attribute and will be stripped from tagged files when those files are placed on filesystems and Cloud services (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) that remove them.


Find Spotlight indexed files that have a red and purple tag on them.

tags:red and tags:purple


In English, and specifically, German-speaking countries, where Tag is defined as day in the locale dictionary, one must use the full Spotlight keyword directly, or separated as previously by a conjunction (e.g. and, or). In either of these examples, tag name strings may be defined/activated in Finder Preferences > Tags with an available color assigned to it.


kMDItemUserTags:red



Although Spotlight does not support regular expressions, or wildcards the following is sufficient to locate a file whose tag name string is Important:


kind:imp



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Apr 26, 2022 9:48 AM in response to rfleck78

What dialabrain said. Tags are a Finder extended attribute and will be stripped from tagged files when those files are placed on filesystems and Cloud services (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) that remove them.


Find Spotlight indexed files that have a red and purple tag on them.

tags:red and tags:purple


In English, and specifically, German-speaking countries, where Tag is defined as day in the locale dictionary, one must use the full Spotlight keyword directly, or separated as previously by a conjunction (e.g. and, or). In either of these examples, tag name strings may be defined/activated in Finder Preferences > Tags with an available color assigned to it.


kMDItemUserTags:red



Although Spotlight does not support regular expressions, or wildcards the following is sufficient to locate a file whose tag name string is Important:


kind:imp



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