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

Tags were first implemented in Mavericks. They did not exist before then. There were 7 coloured labels, but they are different. So I don't know how you could have created a highly efficient tagging system before Mavericks.

I did ask you to run EtreCheck in an earlier post, so we could see the results from that. It's hard to help when we're not in front of the machine, when we only have your slightly agressive and not entirely succinct words. 😉

Once again:

1. Mavericks does not CREATE tags. If that is happening (and it's still not clear) then that is not normal, which therefore suggests some other agent than Mavericks is at work.

2. Mavericks's auto-filling of existing Tag names should NOT be an impediment. Again, if it is, then something is wrong, which can hopefully be fixed.

However, more INFORMATION would be useful. A screenshot, for instance, of the problem.

HappyTexas wrote:

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.

You should then Revert to a previous OS X version

As this is so important to you I suggest you stop jacking other peoples threads and starting your own, you may get better help that way.

Stop using hash, for a week or so, then try to describe your problem objectively and calmy, instead of shooting and being stressed, that may help make it better to understand for everybody here .

HappyTexas wrote:

... I do not have tags created by "someone else." Mavericks is creating them.

I don't want to delete them....

First things first. Regardless of the "who" that created them, you have "a long list of gibberish" values in your tags list, yes?

The place to start (if you wish to get an improvement in your workflow) is to delete each "gibberish" tag. (Previous posts have given info. on how this is done so I won't repeat that detail here.) Myself, I have only seven tag values so the chance of auto-fill being a bother is minimal. It makes sense that if you remove the gibberish values your system has learned (regardless of how they got there) then you'll have fewer problems with what's being "suggested" as you type.

Yes, it's a bother to do the deletions, but that's a one-time step.

Please do not yell back at me that I don't understand what you are asking. I do understand. At present what you want (to turn off auto fill) does not appear to be available. That's the answer to that question. The next question is: Do you want to use this thread to improve your situation (in spite of that answer), or do you just want to grouse at all the folks here who are trying to help you achieve a better result?

If the former, people seem to be infinitely eager to be helpful with suggestionsl; if the latter, have a nice day.

From your description of what is happening to you, and what we experience, you have a problem with your system.

Apple will likely not provide any fix for what is wrong with your system as it appears to be an isolated problem.

If your only problem is that it is auto-completing the tags, then I really doubt they would fix that just for you. It's way to valuable of a feature to remove it just for you.

It's difficult to tell what is wrong as every question is responded to with a load of horse hockey. It is pretty obvious that you cannot be helped in any way, so I would suggest you find another venue to seek help.

Barney-15E wrote:

From your description of what is happening to you, and what we experience, you have a problem with your system.

Apple will likely not provide any fix for what is wrong with your system as it appears to be an isolated problem.

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Since the OP has now 'signed out' of this problem, my reply is for those interested in this question. Frankly, before this post I'd not realized there was an "auto fill" for tag values, so the question itself intrigued me and I tried some experiments.

Because I have those seven (admittedly-dull) tag values, it was easy to try out a couple of experiments. First, I typed a letter that was in NONE of the tags -- easy to do with only 7 values. There was no gibberish presented -- nothing was suggested that began with that letter. Instead, an option was presented to "Create new tag 'aaa'" (where "aaa" was the tag value I'd typed). Had I taken that option I would now have 8 tag values on my list. (And so it goes.) Either the OP was doing that, having typed some "gibberish" and hitting 'return' (perhaps without realizing that the "Create new" action was being triggered), or the system was somehow otherwise populating the tag values list behind the scenes. I don't suppose we'll ever learn this -- but the former seems the more reasonable alternative.

Next, I typed a letter that *is* the first letter of one (or more) of my existing tag values. This time I was presented with those values ... and ONLY those values -- i.e., I did not see Mavericks doing any creative guessing or adding something other than what I had explicitly placed on my own list of tag values. If the OP is still listening in, it would be interesting to hear if her system is presenting fill-in values OTHER than what is on the tag values list (i.e., what is displayed via Finder Preferences -> Tags)??? Also, out of curiosity, roughly how long is that list?

Barney-15E wrote:

...If your only problem is that it is auto-completing the tags, then I really doubt they would fix that just for you. It's way to valuable of a feature to remove it just for you.

Actually, having the ability for a user to turn off auto-fill is not that unusual an option. It's available in Safari and Word (etc.). If enough people request it, it might come in a future OS release.