How to untag multiple files?

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junggle Author

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How to untag multiple files?

I want to remove a certain tag from selected files (while keeping other tags).

I go to tags and it says "Assign tags to 277 items" and shows list made by uniting all tags used within these files.

I delete the tag I want to remove from these files.

Finder tags each selected file with union of tags of those files instead of just removing the single tag.

How can I remove a single tag only without changing the other tags?

I'm running OSX 10.11.2.

Any help appreciated.

MacBook Pro, iOS 9.2

Posted on Dec 20, 2015 3:34 AM

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Answer 1

Barney-15E

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Dec 20, 2015 4:46 AM in response to junggle

It is broken. See here for some workarounds: Re: Finder Tags and Colors Changed (Deleted) by El Capitan

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junggle Author

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Dec 20, 2015 4:32 PM in response to Barney-15E

"As a workaround, you can select from the Contextual menu or File menu, but you would have to have the one you want to use in the Favorites.

So, I guess you have to work out the tradeoff between making the new tag a Favorite and individually tagging each file."

Barney-15E,

the workaround doesn't work for me. All my tags are in Favorites already, but yet Finder doesn't remove/add tags to multiple files properly. It just tags all the selected files with union of all the tags.

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Barney-15E

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Dec 20, 2015 5:29 PM in response to junggle

the workaround doesn't work for me. All my tags are in Favorites already, but yet Finder doesn't remove/add tags to multiple files properly. It just tags all the selected files with union of all the tags.

It may have gotten broken more with 10.11.2. I hadn't checked to see if there had been any changes. Or, it wasn't working the way I thought.

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