Finding Files Without Tags

[Dainyl]

I'm attempting to quick search for files that without tags or without a specific tag and according to this post I should be able to do what I want but both methods listed in the post return zero results when I know there should be some. In fact, these two opposite searches both return zero results:

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?tags:""

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?tags:!""

However, it does work if I use an 'AND' in a search for multiple excluded tags like this:

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?tags:!"Anime" AND !"Wallpaper"

[jupe]

Maybe you are misunderstanding what searching for NO tags means (in that context)?, it means "In the tags database, with no tag" so for example with a label or a comment and no tag, it doesn't mean "all files without a tag", if that is what you are trying to do, to accomplish that you would need a search term like this:

?!tags:?* /E

Of course these examples listed are meant for the XY address bar, not live filter or elsewhere.

PS: To use inversions without requiring a switch you need this enabled (that's probably why both your examples provided identical results):

Configuration | Find and Filter | Find Files & Branch View | Find Files | Enable extended pattern matching

[Dainyl]

Ok. I see where I went wrong. This all started when I tried to use an old "Click and Search" Catalog Category with an exclamation point that did work last time I had used it (probably at least 1-2 years ago) and I wasn't aware that "Extended Pattern Matching" setting in the "Find Files and Branch View" tab was required for that now. Searching for what changed led me to find the post I linked and it wasn't clear that the search patterns there only searched items already in the tag database.