Yojimbo Tag Cleanup 1.1

April 1, 2008

I just released version 1.1 of Yojimbo Tag Cleanup which replaces the usage of the mdfind tool with some AppleScript instead.

A few people reported inconsistencies between the list of Yojimbo tags that were reported as abandoned and those that were actually abandoned. It turned out that relying on the mdfind command and Spotlight to determine which tags were unused wasn’t always very reliable since some people’s Spotlight index of their Yojimbo database isn’t always up to date for whatever reason.

A huge thanks to Steve Kalkwarf of Bare Bones Software for help with the AppleScript code to fetch the list of abandoned tags.

This version is still free and released as-is, and again if you have a large Yojimbo library or use lots of tags it may take a few seconds to open while it finds abandoned tags.

Find out more: Yojimbo Tag Cleanup 1.1

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Yojimbo Tag Cleanup

March 25, 2008

I’ve just posted a simple app called Yojimbo Tag Cleanup that displays a list of your Yojimbo tags that aren’t assigned to any of your Yojimbo database items. It then lets you delete these “abandoned” tags.

I used to do this periodically by hand using an AppleScript to get a list of all the tags, and then searching for each tag by hand, and then deleting the abandoned tags by hand in the Yojimbo preferences window.

If you have a large Yojimbo library or use a lot of tags it may take a few seconds to open while it figures out which tags aren’t being used.

Find out more: Yojimbo Tag Cleanup

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