Tagged folders not returning in Finder "find" results
Hi, this has been an issue ever since I started tagging, and it spans two machines, three OSs, and many, many Spotlight reindexes. Nothing has worked yet. Maybe one of you has an answer besides rebuilding Spotlight index.
What I've done:
- I have an external USB drive full of music in folders for each album; about 3,500 folders
- I started tagging each folder with things like genre, label, year, country of origin, etc.
- It's turned into a lot of tags, probably ~100, maybe more
Steps to replicate the problem:
- Open the big folder of music
- Command-F to show the advanced search panel
- Set the query to Tags > Contains or Matches > One of the tag names, like "USA" or "90s" or "Rock"
The Problem:
- The results are accurate, but incomplete
- Finder returns everything I've recently tagged with the searched tag
- It usually returns a few odd ones that I don't think I've touched recently
Any thoughts on why Finder won't return the entire list? Have I just overloaded it?
Could I do this in Terminal and get accurate results? The original idea was to use Saved Searches to easily see for ex: all albums from the '90s by California bands. Silly, but kind of nice.
