MacOS – way to set a Finder Shortcut for ‘Tags…’ in macOS 10.14 Mojave

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Prior to Mojave, I used a custom Shortcut (System Preferences>Keyboard> Shortcuts>App Shortcuts) for the 'Tags…' command (Finder, File>Tags…), as in this answer: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/112852/63961.

After updating, this shortcut stopped working, and the keystroke no longer appeared in Finder's File menu next to 'Tags…'. The custom setting was still present in System Preferences.

I've attempted to reset this by clearing the old shortcut and re-creating it, with a variety of different keystrokes, and with alternate spelling for 'Tags…' (i.e., with three periods for the ellipsis character). Other custom shortcuts do work in Finder, for menu items either already having built-in keystrokes, or when no built-in is present. The Finder Toolbar button for the 'Tags…' command works fine, as does the menu item itself.

Best Answer

In Finder, go to preferences, then Tags. Remove all favorite tags, and the shortcut should work.

Related Solutions

Keystroke commands for open recent

I have used FastScripts to assign a shortcut to this script:

tell application "System Events" to tell (process 1 where it is frontmost)
    tell menu bar item 3 of menu bar 1
        click
        repeat with x in {"Open Recent", "Open Recent File", "Recent Projects", "Open With"}
            if exists menu item x of menu 1 then
                click menu item x of menu 1
                exit repeat
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

It opens an Open With menu in Finder and a menu for recent files in other applications.

There are other ways to assign a shortcut to a script using Quicksilver, Alfred, etc.