Problems with "Copy tags to Spotlight comments"

EagleFiler
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Hi guys,

I’m having trouble getting EF to copy tags to Spotlight comments even though the relevant option is checked in preferences. The manual mentions that tags are copied to Spotlight comments “when a library is opened and periodically thereafter”, but my experience is that they are copied only very irregularly or not at all. How often should the copy happen usually?

I can force EF to copy tags to Spotlight comments using the Backup Metadata command, but this sometimes causes another problem: it will overwrite any tags added to that file by other applications, unless EF has already detected those tags. I know I could avoid this problem by running the “Tags from Spotlight comments” script first, but what would be more useful to me is a script that detects and merges all relevant tags simultaneously – a kind of “refresh tags” option. Does such a thing exist?

Thanks!

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EagleFiler will try to do it every two hours, but other operations (such as imports) can take precedence.

No. It’s not possible to write such a script, because how would it know which set of tags was more recent?

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OK, thanks
How about a “merge” script that simply took both sets of tags from both places and combined them for both?

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In other words, assume that no tags were renamed or removed?

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I see your point…
…think I’ve found a workaround in any case. Thanks Michael.