Get all filesystem tags

Question

Since OSX Mavericks supports file tags. Is there any API to access these programmatically? How can I get a list of all system tags? And manipulate them?

I tried already:

• NSFileManager class
• File System Programming Guide
• File Metadata Search Programming Guide

yet none of those mention the existance of tags.

Answer 1

You can find all system tags in this path: ~/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.finder.plist

But the default the plist file doesn't exist. You can make it appear by adding a new tag. By the way, do you find other way to get all system tags?

Answer 2

Don't know whether this is what you are looking for:

see this thread for adding tags programmatically How can I add OS X "tags" to files programmatically?

also if you look at the NSURL reources page http://goo.gl/fwHMWk it says about getting names of tags attached to the resource, returned as an array of NSString values using the NSURLTagNamesKey.