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Is it feasible to list all tags already defined in OS X in Terminal?
I know there are some third-party applications that list all tags, but I just want to use Terminal to find all tags, since I use this tool to work with tags in Terminal (but unfortunately the tool doesn't provide to list tags for an entire system – it just lists for a single or multiple files selected arbitrarily).
Thanks.
I was so sick of this, so I decided to write a fix once and for all.
You can use the following AppleScript to resize the column widths when you notice the column is too wide. It works by resizing the Finder window really large, then back to it's original size, triggering a fluid layout resize.
tell application "Finder"
tell the front Finder window
-- get the current bounds of the finder window
set b to the bounds
-- create a really wide window
set the bounds to {item 1 of b, item 2 of b, 3000, item 4 of b}
-- set window back to its original size
set the bounds to b
end tell
end tell
This will probably be most useful if bound to a keyboard shortcut, I personally bound it to CMD + E using BetterTouch Tool.
If you're after more detailed information regarding this, you can head over to my blog post about it here: https://christianvarga.com/fix-finder-name-column-width-bug-osx-mavericks/
For your second menubar problem, you can unset the last checkbox in Mission Control preferences panel.
To do this: System Preferences > Mission Control. Uncheck the fifth checkbox "Display have separate spaces"
Best Answer
The tags name are in
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.list.You can read it with
It will need some parsing to be a bit clearer :
Other possibility is parsing the plist as xml. To do that you'll need to first convert the plist from binary to xml using.
plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist