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kiwichick
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Find Files without Tags

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Hi there, When using "Find Files" I can search for files by Tag but is there a way to find files without a particular tag or without any tags at all? Cheers
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Re: Find Files without Tags

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Good question. Actually you discovered a bug there! It should work by

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?tags:""
(Addressbar or, without the ?, Name field in Find Files tab) but stopped doing so. Fix comes...

EDIT: Wrong, it was not bug but worked as advertised. But I'll change it anyway to work as desired.

kiwichick
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Re: Find Files without Tags

Post by kiwichick »

Hi admin, I've installed the latest beta. That's fantastic!!! And I can populate "" with a tag name then check the "Invert" checkbox to find files missing a particular Tag. Brilliant!!! Thank you so much :appl: :appl: :appl:
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Re: Find Files without Tags

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FYI, you can also invert the logic by prefixing a "!":

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tags:!"Camel"
Finds all items not tagged Camel.

Actually when not looking for nothing you can as well skip the quotes:

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tags:!Camel
Independence from the Invert checkbox allows you to store such patterns in the Catalog or Favorites or use them in scripts.

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Re: Find Files without Tags

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Thanks for the tips!!
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