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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I'm surprised that calibre's tags don't show up in MacOS in the same way they do in Windows. Do they show up in the file, e.g.:
Word DOCX
Attachment 211118
xChange PDF
Attachment 211119
BR |
Hi BR, thanks once again for the helpful comment and screenshots. It's neat to see that Calibre on Windows is able to write directly to a file's Windows-native tag set.
However, a bit sadly, Calibre on the Mac doesn't seem to be able to write to a file's Mac-native tags.
Five minutes ago, I imported a newly created Microsoft Word file into Calibre 7.19 and applied two tags to it within Calibre, and ran Calibre's "embed metadata" successfully. After that, I was not able to see any tags in the Word app (File > Properties > Summary > "Keywords" field), nor with the Finder app (Finder is the Mac equivalent of Window's File Explorer).
Out of curiosity, I added a tag "test-tag" to this Keyword field in Microsoft Word to see if it would show up as a Mac-native tag – it did not, but it did show up as a keyword in the Finder app. The screenshot below shows this outcome:
I took a few steps back to see if Calibre's tags might also be embedded in this manner am happy to see that it does:
At this stage, I'm looking for some automated way of getting these keywords to be reflected as Mac-native tags.