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Hello,

Since a couple of days I am using Forklift as a "Finder replacement". In Hazel I did create a couple of rules that are looking for specific tags assigned to a file. The time I did the tagging with the macOS Finder, the rules worked well.
But since I am assigning the tags with Forklift, I can see the tag assigned also in the Finder, but Hazel seems to ignore that tags and the rules are not working. Also when I am checking the file with the "Preview Rule" function, I am getting the red symbol, showing me that the condition doesn't seem to fit.
When I am removing such a tag in finder and adding it with the finder again, Hazel immediately runs the rule.

Did anybody of you experience the same?

Thank you!
Ernst

I suggest contacting the Forklift folks to see how they are setting tags. The fact that it works when done by Finder indicates that the problem is probably on their end.

Hello,

I did contact the developers of Forklift and got an answer.
I am not a developer, but hopefully I does make sense for you and maybe it is possible to adopt something on "Hazel side".
Thank you anyway for your support and great software!

Quote:

We set tags as documented here: https://developer.apple.com/documentati ... ourcevalue
And we set this attribute: URLResourceKey.tagNamesKey
The tag added last is treated as a color label too.
​In the past color labels were used instead of tags. For example in ForkLift 2 you could add only a color label. If you add a red color label with ForkLift 2, then the red dot will appear in ForkLift 3 next to the file name too but it won't be treated as a tag, the tag column in list view and the tag area in the Get Info will remain empty.

Hazel reads and writes that same value. Are you using tags or colors?

I am using a combination of colors and named tags.

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I suggest sticking to tags only.

Hello, using tags only seems to help. It looks working now!
Thank you!