OMFG
Evidently there has been something lurking in the depths of HFS+ all this time and this meta-data fiend never knew! Page 7 of the "article":http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/ I mentioned in my previous post (all of 5 minutes ago) has an example command line "tool":http://dev.bignerdranch.com/public/bnr/xattr.dmg that lets you assign meta-data tags to files! The example given speaks for itself (and if it doesn't then you don't get the meta-data geek merit badge): % xattr --set name John file % xattr --set color red file % xattr --list file file color red name John I repeat for /emphasis/ OMFG