Looking for a file-tagging solution

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26 Feb 2009, 2:00 am

Howdy, I have a large multimedia collection that I want to organize. It contains books, music, video, code files, web pages, executables, archives, and various documents (mostly Open Office). To give you an idea of the scope of this project, I have over 6 gigabytes (compressed) of books alone. I am running XP.

I would like to be able to add tags to files of arbitrary type. I would like to be able to easily search for tags from an integrated interface. I would like to be able to easily access this tag data programatically. Additional features are nice but not strictly necessary.

A quick Google search finds me something called taggtool. Does anyone have any experience with this or other personal file tagging solutions?

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26 Feb 2009, 3:26 am

Why not organize this via the file system? The file system provides the possibility to use reasonable directory and file names like

"Data/Music/Baroque/bach/organ/Trisonaten/BWV-525/SchlosskircheAltenkirchen.mp3"

In this way your independent from any further tool.

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26 Feb 2009, 1:02 pm

Dussel wrote:

For the same reason you wouldn't use a single inheritance tree to map a Venn diagram.

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26 Feb 2009, 3:15 pm

get Linux with KDE4?, it allows arbitrary tags on random files.

Warning KDE4 is borderline ready for prime time / not

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26 Feb 2009, 5:20 pm

TheKingsRaven wrote:

get Linux with KDE4?, it allows arbitrary tags on random files.

Warning KDE4 is borderline ready for prime time / not

This is a gaming PC.

Tried tag2find last night but it was slow (not nearly as bad as taggtool, though). Still looking.

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26 Feb 2009, 10:34 pm

Filemaker
or Spotlight :roll:

AHHH, Copernicus is nice, it automatically tags, freeware.
stay away from X11 and WDS.

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26 Feb 2009, 11:49 pm

Maybe its just time for ntfs to be replaced.

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27 Feb 2009, 12:08 am

Fuzzy wrote:

Maybe its just time for ntfs to be replaced.

Actually NTFS has some handy file tagging features, that Windows kindly NEGLECTS TO UTILIZE IN ANY WAY.

And thanks dancing hamster person, Ill check into it.

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27 Feb 2009, 12:27 am

Thats no dancing hamster! I think thats a mogwai!

Dont get computerlove wet or feed him after midnight. He'll turn into either Stripe, or perhaps Amy Winehouse.

Or perhaps both. I'm not to sure.

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27 Feb 2009, 1:00 am

Fuzzy wrote:

Thats no dancing hamster! I think thats a mogwai!

Dont get computerlove wet or feed him after midnight. He'll turn into either Stripe, or perhaps Amy Winehouse.

Or perhaps both. I'm not to sure.

wet what?

you didn't complain last night *wink*

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28 Feb 2009, 8:58 pm

I have the least acceptable solution; Microsoft Access (hey, you may not know this, but when you work for a computer store [at least back in the 80s], Microsoft would sell us things like Office for $35...

A database might just be the thing. I don't know if Open Office has one, but before Access, I had something called Rapidfile, and...ok...geezer rambling about the past again...

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01 Mar 2009, 5:11 pm

TheKingsRaven. I was expecting someone would suggest GNU/linux

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01 Mar 2009, 7:10 pm

What you are looking for a is a relational database for cross referencing with a suitable interface and a file system for storage.

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