Fsnotes: [Question] Is there migration Tags from older version to current

[griffin-stewie]

I used Tags feature on older version which has a UI to input tag name.
Today I updated latest FSNotes for macOS and then all tags are gone.
Is there a way to salvage all tags?

[gingerbeardman]

Are the tags on the files in Finder?

Do they reappear if you downgrade FSNotes?

[griffin-stewie]

I downgraded v3.9.1 FSNotes then all tags are reappeared.

[gingerbeardman]

@griffin-stewie that's great and gives us something to go on.

I think there will need to be a command, perhaps manual/user-invoked rather than automatic, to migrate all tags (macOS Finder) from the old way to the new way (as markup).

[griffin-stewie]

Oh I see. I was wondering how FSNotes handles tags without any database or any metadata block. That was Finder tags.
Personally I prefer Finder tags rather than markup because I can copy and paste to other services.

I look forward you to make solution to migrate all tags. Thank you!

[glushchenko]

Hi, @griffin-stewie!

Old style tags removed completely from FSNotes 4+. Metadata is not reliable data storage. iCloud can miss it on sync etc.

I am not planning to do a migration for 1 user. Better spend time on something more worthwhile.

[griffin-stewie]

Hi, @glushchenko
I understand what you said. I would write a migration tool for me when I have a spare time.
@gingerbeardman, you helped me a lot thank you.

[gingerbeardman]

Migration ideas...

using macOS buit-in tools

1. list all tags
   /usr/bin/mdfind -0 "(kMDItemUserTags == '*')" |xargs -0 mdls -name kMDItemUserTags |grep '^ ' |cut -c5- |cut -d , -f 1 |sort -u
2. find notes with tag
   mdfind 'kMDItemUserTags=Music' -onlyin /path/to/folder
3. append text tag to end of file
   echo "#Music" >> $file
4. (optional) remove tags from files
   sudo xattr -d com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags "$file"; sudo xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo "$file";

or using an external tool

• https://github.com/jdberry/tag/

[griffin-stewie]

@gingerbeardman
Thank you. I'll give it a try.

[gingerbeardman]

Let us know how you get on!