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		pwinnski on June 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for... I'm not familiar with Windows file tagging, but on MacOS this is not true. Any and all files may be tagged, regardless of their type or contents.

kwhitefoot on June 12, 2019 [–]

What happens if you move or copy a file?

pwinnski on June 12, 2019 | [–]

Moving and duplicating both preserve the tags: they're metadata. They're part of the reason for those pesky .DS_Store files that proliferate on network shares and non-Mac filesystems, in fact.

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