Tags From Spotlight Comments

Summary: Sets the tags of the selected records from the Spotlight comments.
Requires: EagleFiler
Install Location: ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/EagleFiler/

Description

If you’ve used the Finder to add tags to the Spotlight comments of a file, you can select the file in EagleFiler and run this script to set the EagleFiler tags accordingly.

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Script

tell application "EagleFiler"
    set theRecords to selected records of browser window 1
    tell library document 1
        repeat with theRecord in theRecords
            set theFile to file of theRecord
            tell application "Finder"
                set theComment to comment of file theFile
            end tell
            set theTagNames to words of theComment
            set theTags to {}
            repeat with theName in theTagNames
                copy tag theName to end of theTags
            end repeat
            set theRecord's assigned tags to theTags
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

Last Modified: 2007-08-17

Running the Script

You can use AppleScript Editor (AppleScript Utility prior to Mac OS X 10.6) to enable Mac OS X’s built-in Script menu. To run the script, just select it from the menu. FastScripts provides a similar menu that supports keyboard shortcuts and other features.