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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?

No way, VF works only against the filename.

admin wrote: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?

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

admin wrote: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?

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

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

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*?tags: ...

Wow! It works like a charm 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.

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

admin wrote:I'm confused now. Is the problem solved now?

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

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.

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

But, anyway, good it works for you now.