Visual Filter for "No Tags" ?

[kunkel321]

I'd like to go through a large folder of icons and categorize them via tagging.
It would be a lot easier if, as they were tagged, they'd become hidden.

I see that Visual Filtering does allow you to use <xyvars>, but I don't think there's a var for tags...

Any idea how I can achieve this?

[admin]

No way, VF works only against the filename.

[armsys]

No way, VF works only against the filename.

Don,
I'm confused, The manual clearly states that Quick Name Search (QNS) supports tags:.
But at the address bar, if I type, say, "? tags:vb" (enter), it fails, even though they exist.
Do I misunderstand the usage of QNS?

[admin]

That way it searches the current location only, not the whole machine. Okay?

[armsys]

That way it searches the current location only, not the whole machine. Okay?

I'm sorry. Is TAGS: search supposed to be global by default?

[admin]

No. Put an asterisk before the ? to make it global:

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*?tags: ...

[armsys]

No. Put an asterisk before the ? to make it global:

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*?tags: ...

Wow! It works like a charm

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* ?tags:vb

I tagged all VB/VBA/VBScript books with "VB".
BTW, even in the folder known to contain files tagged with "VB", ?tags:VB still fails.
That drives me crazy.
Thanks a million, Don.

[admin]

I'm confused now. Is the problem solved now?

[armsys]

I'm confused now. Is the problem solved now?

Of course, the problem has already been resolved thanks to you.

[armsys]

Don,

For the global search of tagged files, it works brilliant per your solution.
For the local search, it's seemingly unsuccessful as described in the manual.
But now I discover the cause of the local search failure.
After setting Cache search results to 0 (zero), all previous local search failures vanish.
Previously, I set Cache search results to 1,000. And that was the culprit.
Don, thank for asking the status. Otherwise, I could have missed the solution myself.

[admin]

Hm, it works here in any case. Cannot see a relation to caching.

But, anyway, good it works for you now.