How do I STOP auto-till tags when saving documents?

Since the Apple "geniuses" installed Mavericks, tags are auto-filled as I try to type the TRUE tag words and phrases needed. The tags Apple demands I use are always wrong. I have to abandon a once-flawless file system or fight with an illiterate robot that thinks it's a mind reader. "Just keep typing something different?" Are you kidding me??? When the tag I need is "cat," why must I fight my way through the whole **** zoo just to get three letters in correct order? There is nothing efficient about that.

This throw-back tag system is HORRIBLE!!!

Exactly, benwiggy! When I type "cat" because I'm working with animals, I do not want to waste a minute of my time or one iota of aggravation on "category" and "catharsis." When I CHOOSE to type "cat," "category" and "catharsis" are incorrect. Always. Every single time. They're misspelled. They're errors, typos, invasions, time-wasters, they're wrong in every way.

How can I make the time-wasting, inaccurate, incorrect, invasive, unwanted, just-plain-wrong words from getting in my way? How can I make that whole stupid invasion stop?

How can I return to a filing system that was once efficient, operated smoothly and accurately, and that actually did me some good?

You're getting warmer, benwiggy, but you are not addressing the question.

(1) Yes, there is a lot of mumbled-jumbled CRAP in my tags list. I did not create them. I do not want them so I did not create them. They are auto-generated and they are incorrect, useless, invasive, unwanted, wrong. I did not create them because I do not use them. I will not use them ever. Whether they are in the tags list or not is irrelevant. I did not create them because I do not want them. I will never use them. I don't want a tags LIST. I want them to go away and stay away.

(2) You write: "suggests that Tags used to work better." "No change to Tags since 10.9 was launched." Yes and yes again! The problem is the god-awful excuse for a tagging system that emerged with the Mavericks monster. I need it to go away, thus . . .

(3) My question: How do I STOP auto-fill tags when saving documents?

Making sense yet?

This is becoming exhausting, benwiggy. I thought we were headed somewhere but you're lost again.

You write:

(1) "Tags should not get automatically created." Thus my question of how to stop it.

(2) "That is not my experience." Goodie for you.

(3) "7 default coloured Tags" = utterly and completely useless. When I want to play with colors, I'll grab a box of Crayola crayons and a sheet of typing paper and crawl down onto the floor and have myself a color-filled little artsy party. I can't begin to describe how irrelevent and undesireable these silly colors are to me. What good are 7 useless colors going to do me with a thousand different tags? And I care nothing for how you coral or create them.

(4) "OS X is automatically CREATING tags with random terms, and/or tagging your files with these tags" = now we're getting somewhere again. And, again, thus the question of stopping the time-draining, energy-sucking madness.

Thank you for this suggestion, Eric Root. I've submitted feedback about it repeatedly, including again today. I've called to speak to them personally. There's been no improvements and the file system that has worked flawlessly for me for years has been turned upside down by this utterly stupid new development that came with the utterly curious Mavericks retrograde "upgrade."

There are a few plusses to Mavericks but they are nowhere good enough to outweigh all the bad, time-wasting, aggravating, throw-back flaws, glitches, crashes, freezes, and other chaos that was unleashed when Mavericks was installed. My computer in the 1980s worked faster and more reliabley than Mavericks ever has. I would've been glad to pay for something that actually works.

I can't imagine third-party software being an issue. Everything worked in perfect syncronization before installing Mavericks. After that, all **** broke loose. I even spent twice as much time as I was told it would take at the Apple store so the "geniuses" could upgrade all third-party software to be compatible with this blasted "free upgrade" they installed.

I've gotten so far behind on work that I can't take the time to experiement right now but will try to run your software check in a few days. Thanks for the suggestion, benwiggy.

No, actionmarker, you miss the question altogether. I DO want to use tags. I've created a highly efficient file system based on tags and it's worked flawlessly for years. . . until "geniuses" ruined everything with the extremely expensive "free" Mavericks "upgrade."

Now I cannot type tags anymore. I try but the Mavericks idiot takes over and screws up everything I try to type. The entire process of intelligently saving a file has become really stupid since the Mavericks monster rode into town.

I have no desire to save tags. I can type them much faster than my computer can retrieve them. Saving tags seems like a really stupid, useless idea to me.

I want to turn off the auto-complete headache so I can type my own tags, accurately, speedily, and efficiently. How do I turn off the auto-complete train wreck?

As for saving tags, I just don't. It serves no purpose. I do, indeed, see a long list of gibberish Mavericks has created but I don't touch that junk. It serves no purpose and it wastes my time.

How do I turn off the tags auto-complete lunacy?

Making any sense yet?