Hi,
I'm working with a person who doesn't have a Mac (yes, there's still people like that!) and needs to write documents on Word using her Windows PC that are classified by tags that then I could read in my Mac and which automatically will add the tags she wrote in the tag system I have in my Mac. Is there any program or app to do this?
I have a Mac Pro, using OS X 10.10.4
thank you very much,
Hopper
What you are describing from a Mac perspective is how Spotlight on a Mac works. As Barney-15E said these tags (as used by Spotlight) are metadata and cannot be used by Windows since Spotlight is an Apple only feature. I don't believe they use resource forks but that is not really relevant.
There are two possibilities that may work between Mac and Windows.
Firstly Word itself has an option in Properties in which you define a series of keywords. Open the Word document, go to the File menu, select Properties, then click on the Summary tab at the top, and look for the Keywords box. Clearly this information will be stored in the individual Word file and is supported on both the Mac and the Windows PC. However how you could use that for searching I don't know.
The second possibility is that on a Mac with a Mac file server it is possible to have Spotlight indexing take place so that the client Macs can search files and tags on the server. Windows has a similar feature called Windows Search Service. It is possible to have a Windows File Server and install on it additional software called ExtremeZ-IP. (Now called Acronis Access Connect.) This software was originally just for adding Apple compatible File Sharing to a Windows server but it now also can use the Windows Search Service and convert the results to a form that a Mac client can use via Spotlight. Therefore in theory Windows PCs and Macs can both search the same files on the same server. See http://www.acronis.com/en-us/mobility/mac-windows-compatibility/
If you're talking about tagging files in the file system, no. You can't do that.
Thanks for your response. I don't know if it's the file system. What I mean is that with OS X, I'm able to use tags to classify my files, ascribing many tags to a single document. I'd like to do the same, but with the help of someone who works with me and doesn't have a Mac. If that's not possible, is there any other way of using an external internet platform or app to be able then to sync the documents created and tagged using a Windows PC to the tag system I have in Os X?
Thank you again. Best
Hopper
hopper88 wrote:
Thanks for your response. I don't know if it's the file system. What I mean is that with OS X,
Tags are stored in metadata (resource forks) attached to files. They don't exist in a database or other file that can be synced. They must be attached to each individual file's metadata. If you can find a Windows program that can write the metadata that OS X can understand, it might be possible to do what you wish.
how to use tags in windows pc that could be synched to os x
