Search for and Move Tagged Files/Folders

Questions & Suggestions
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Trying to create a macro that will perform the following actions:

  1. Search my entire Mac for files and folders with a specific tag.

  2. Move the tagged items to a different folder of my choosing.

The only thing I see on KM related to tags in KM is "Set file attribute."

Can anyone help me get started? It would be much appreciated.

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You can read tags from the Get File Attribute action, so something like this should work for the tags and file part (replace placeholders with real paths and/or variables as appropriate):

Example Macro.kmmacros (2.2 KB)

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Try adding a notification action before each step. That way you'll know at least where it stopped.

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YA, that wasn't supposed to be there. LOL

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and notification of failure was there.

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I did figure out thast there was an easy solution for all of this - Hazel.

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Could you please post/upload your solution so that others can benefit.
Thanks.

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Sure, but I'm not sure how since the solution isn't via Keyboard Maestro but I used a Hazel rule that said

Look in my for files and folder with < tags > that < Contain > Red Tag

Move

files to <.New Directory/folder >

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