User Guide

Synchronizing your tagged files

Select the 'Sync' tab to activate the synchronize screen.

All metadata such as tags,descriptions and ratings are stored externally to the physical files, as such all of your metadata is private.

This means that Taggtool does not write metadata into the physical file so you can send files to people without worrying that your tags are visible to them.

The cost to having private metadata is that Taggtool's internal database needs to stay synchronized with the underlying file system. Taggtool hooks into the operating system in order to detect file changes, sometimes however a file system event may be missed. If this happens then you can use the synchronise feature to re-align Taggtool's database.

The synchronize process is made up of the following 3 steps:

Step 1 - Run Report to list any out of sync files
Step 2 - Search your computer's hard disk for possible matches
Step 3 - Update the database with the new file locations

Step 1 - Run Report

The feature works by first examining the active database for any missing files, any files found to be missing will be listed in the Missing Files table.

Step 2 - Search

Before execute the search, you can limit the volumes or file systems that Taggtool will search to find the missing file(s).

Simply tick the checkboxes for each volume you would like Taggtool to search.

click 'Step 2 - Search' to activate the file search.

Any matches found will be displayed in the 'Missing Files' table, if Taggtool has located possible matches you can proceed to the next step in order to update the database with the new file location.

Step 3 - Resolve

The missing files table tells you which files are missing along with potential matches it has found, if there is more than one match for a file you can selected which match is the correct one by selecting the radio button in the last column.

If you do not wish to resolve specific files listed in the missing files table, you can use the first checkbox column to deselect the files, this tells Taggtool to ignore these files when the database is Click the Resolve button to update the database.