System: macOS 11.6.1, MBP 2019 16in
I’m having a persistent problem with sure tags. I’ve a tag, name it “publish”, that I take advantage of as a toggle. I set it on recordsdata that I want to seek out to add to a sure cloud web site. I set it on recordsdata that I want to connect to an e-mail. I set it on recordsdata that I must ship in a presentation. After I’ve completed the motion with the recordsdata, I unset the tag.
The tag resides in my sidebar as a favourite. It’s coloured yellow.
My downside is, the tag typically refuses to be unset. It refuses to be unset in a slightly disturbing method. It refuses to be unset to vanish from the favourite listing however it reveals no tag within the Finder listing view. Here’s a view with the ghost-tagged file and a valid-tagged file.
I’ve tried these 4 choices:
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I’ve toggled the publish tag on and off to the file utilizing the favorites view. Whereas I do that, I see the xattr com.apple.FinderInfo and com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags toggle on and off (see additional beneath).
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I added the folder containing the file to the Highlight “don’t search” desire pane (Privateness) to delete the Highlight index. The ghost-tagged file disappeared from the favorites listing. I rebooted. I eliminated the folder from the Highlight don’t index listing. The ghost-tagged file reappears.
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I used numerous approaches with xattr to view the meta attributes and take away them with -dr. I discovered that I might take away all xattr traits. The ghost-tagged file appeared to drop from the favorites. However after I clicked to a special favourite tag and returned to the publish tag … there was the ghost-tagged file once more and it had completely no meta-xattr settings.
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I’ve deleted the publish tag solely utilizing the Finder preferences. I then created a brand new tag with the identical identify. The ghost-tagged file reappears.
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I used OnyX to take away the Highlight index file.
A slight wrinkle maybe. I’ve my inside laborious drive partitioned into three volumes. Among the above catastrophe occurs with recordsdata which might be on different volumes.
One other slight wrinkle maybe. I’m utilizing DevonThink to index parts of the exterior quantity that include the recordsdata. I seemed on the DT database for the tag. It reveals no file is contained in that tag.
What puzzles me primarily is what else I must be doing to purge the ghost tag definitively. Ought to I boot into secure mode to purge one thing? Ought to I rinse the file via some secondary app to take away the tag (the recordsdata are primarily PDFs, and I’ve rw entry to them as seen within the Finder data field)?
My studying suggests this may increasingly an issue with out a solution, or the reply is pretty deeply hidden. Any ideas can be appreciated, even when solely to substantiate that this thriller is simply a kind of hidden gems in utilizing macOS.