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Finder assigned tags on network drives?

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03 Jul 2014 11:27 #49104 by alex4D
As 10.1.2 can set keywords based on Finder tags, has anyone got any experience with tags on network drives?

Since OS X Mavericks came out people have had problems making them work on non-local drives.

According to zphelj on the Apple Support Communities , you need to make sure Spotlight has indexed any NASes you want to use:

Use 'mdutil /Volumes/[Share Name] -i on' to enable (off to disable)



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03 Jul 2014 14:10 #49116 by weichsel
Finder tags are serialised as binary plist and stored as extended file system attribute.
Based on that, I suppose that tags will work in FCP X as long as the NAS file system supports extended attributes.

You can check if a file has stored extended attributes with xattr
e.g.
Code:
xattr asset.mov

To list the content of an extended attribute, you can use mdls:
Code:
mdls -name kMDItemUserTags asset.mov

The above prints the same tags that FCP X uses for my test file.

John Siracusa's Mavericks review has some great details about Finder tags.

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