MacOS – Tags not associated in OS X

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I have tags assigned to my user created text file and it wouldn't show on finder.

I have assigned, Green icon / tag (renamed to environments) to associate a text file. Tag gets assigned good. Atleast thats what i see.

But when i click on the Green tag on the sidebar of the finder, to get all files associated with green, it does not work.

I did try restarting my Mac for the settings to take effect to no avail.

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Unknown tag in finder

Best Answer

  1. Issued sudo mdutil -i on "/Volumes/External-SSD” and got back "Indexing and searching disabled.” for external HDD.
  2. Defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true ; killall Finder (shows all file)
  3. Go to hdd where indexing is not working. externalssd in my case. find locate .metadata_never_index & delete it.
  4. sudo mdutil -i on "/Volumes/External-SSD” started spotlight indexing and indexes are created.
  5. Tags working now.

This concludes that Tag functionality is dependant on spotlight and needs to be enabled.

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