Alex Especially when the limit is 14 items… It made sense to someone… consistency for API consolidation? Sandor

It’s a Core Data backing store. -ben

Why the hell Apple feels the need to store Finder tags in an SQL database is beyond me. Is there a valid rationale behind this?

On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 02:42 PM, James Walker wrote: sqlite3 ~/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.kvs/com.apple.KeyValueService-Production.sqlite "SELECT writefile('path/to//tags.plist',

Awesome! I didn't know about writefile(). I need to remember that. So you're set now, I assume?

... I looked around for information on extracting binary data from an SQLite database, and found

Little correction: hex value for 502 is 1F6, not 1EE.

The "bplist" data is the same that you get when you read it from a plist file, so you can use the same code, i.e. using [NSPropertyList propertyListWithData:…]. If you don't get this working, then

ok I'm able to retrieve the data via: sqlite3 ~/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.kvs/com.apple.KeyValueService-Production.sqlite 'SELECT ZKEY, ZPLISTDATAVALUE FROM ZSYDMANAGEDKEYVALUE WHERE ZKEY =

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 04:17 AM, Thomas Tempelmann wrote: Okay, found it now.Oh wow. You're a genius. That's an impressive investigation. Thanks for getting to the bottom of it! It'll take me some

Okay, found it now. Searching with FAF for "FinderTagDictVersion" in ~/Library found it in ~/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.kvs/com.apple.KeyValueService-Production.sqlite And if you look into

Oh, damnit! I looked at the High Sierra version of Finder. I only realized that now when I found the tags inside /Users/tempi/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.finder.plist Sigh. Will try again on

This is probably also relevant when looking at the previous code: /* @class TiCloudTagReplicator */ -(void *)iCloudDictionary { rdi = self->_store; rax = [[rdi dictionaryRepresentation]

Searching in Hopper for "tags" finds methods such as "readTagsFromCloud:". Do you have iCloud active? Maybe that's where they're now exclusively stored. Could you check this: Create a second user

The next step would be to use "Hopper Disassembler" and find the code that shows and sets up the Finder prefs window, in order to find out where it loads the information from. Hopper can turn the

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 10:35 AM, Thomas Tempelmann wrote: The best I could come up with so far is to use AppleScript to read the tag names from the Preferences window, see below. But it sucks

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 09:25 AM, Thomas Tempelmann wrote: ...I've already searched ALL files on a startup's data volume for the appearance of the name of a custom tag I added. No luck. Meaning it's

The best I could come up with so far is to use AppleScript to read the tag names from the Preferences window, see below. But it sucks because it has to actually open the Finders's Prefs window. use

As the developer of FindAnyFile, which has a more powerful text search feature that EasyFind (it can find text in both UTF-8 and -16, in LE and BE, and even considers unicode pre/decomposition

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 11:11 AM, Gary L. Wade wrote: I’m not sure if it’s officially documented somewhere, but what I’d do is add some tags to a particular file, see what that file looks like