Hi,
one question about tagging:
I have a tag “read” to mark pdf files that I have to read thoroughly (and annotate) later.
This tag “read later” is contained in another tag (group) named “action” to group all the tags which contain something I have to do (e. g. “buy book” or “get article in library”…).
So if I tag a pdf with “read later” it automatically “inherits” the tag “action”, which makes sense.
However, If I now remove the tag “read later” from the document in the info window, the document still keeps the “action” tag, which does not make sense, as this was not implicitly assigned but “only inherited”.
I know, I know - that would not happen with a flat tag structure, …
Is there a way to distinguish tags which were directly assigned and those inherited by assigning other “sub-tags”?
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I just thought I’d have discovered a difference between groups and tags, but I tried it and with groups it is the same:
I created a group named “supergroup” and in this group another group “subgroup”.
If I replicate a document into “subgroup” it get both grey tags for “subgroup” and “supergroup”.
If now I remove the tag (by deleting it with backspace in the Information window), the replicate moves to the “supergroup” and it keeps this tag which originally was “only inherited”.
Situation is different when I select the item in three pane view (or another one) and then send it to the trash.
Then, it seems to also loose the connection with the inherited tags/groups…
That’s tricky IMHO, because the behavior of the app is in a way logical, but in another way inconsistent…
a practical question:
is there a way to remove a certain tag (e. g. “read later”) and all tags containing it (in my example “actions”) from the selected item(s) by AppleScript?
kind regards
Martin