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From: "Emory L." <emory@hellyeah.com>
To: Mac OS X enterprise deployment project <macenterprise@lists.psu.edu>, "adambarnett52@GMAIL.COM" <adambarnett52@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Osx 10.9 tags
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:33:02 -0500


This is probably because your extended attributes and metadata aren't making it over. If you're using rsync from a Mac, the one Apple includes is not able to do this.

Recommended solution: install rsync 3.1.0, I use Homebrew to install it. I can't vouch for your destination filesystem and platform knowing what an extended attribute is, but it works for me against HFS+ and ZFS destinations on FreeBSD, OS X servers.



> Confirmation exercise: 
>
> I have a markdown document that has some Mavericks tags assigned. I am going to use rsync to make a copy of it into my Documents folder, and I'll check tags on the file before and after the copy.

    emory@stickwell ➠  Writing/Articles % mdls -name kMDItemUserTags Dear\ Prudence.md                                                                                                                                                                                     
    kMDItemUserTags = (
        prudence,
        articles,
        writing,
        letters
    )

Great, my tags are there.

    emory@stickwell ➠  Writing/Articles % /usr/local/bin/rsync -Ha -E --crtimes --fileflags --xattrs --acls Dear\ Prudence.md ~/Documents/

Using my preferred version of rsync, I'm going to copy the file and preserve create times, extended attributes, ACLs and fileflags. Then I will see if my tags are still there.

    emory@stickwell ➠  Writing/Articles % mdls -name kMDItemUserTags ~/Documents/Dear\ Prudence.md
kMDItemUserTags = (
        prudence,
        articles,
        writing,
        letters
    )

Victory \o/ ! My tags are still there on the copy.

This is a common problem with a lot of filesystem sync tools. Dropbox respects extended attributes and metadata like kMDItemUserTags, but GoogleDrive doesn't. BitTorrent Sync doesn't respect it either. 


> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:02:05 +0000
> From: adambarnett52@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Osx 10.9 tags
> To: MACENTERPRISE@LISTS.PSU.EDU
>
> Hi all
>
> Firstly want to thank everyone one on this list. It's is a great resource that make our lives a lot easier
>
> I was wondering if anyone has had any issues with tag. Especially when moving profiles from one machine to another. I've been rsync'ing via a linux sever the profile but that tags to not copy across ?