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Now that Leopard is out, Pete and I can confirm that TagBot 1.1 doesn't quite work with it. Most functionalities, such as applying and importing tags, work fine. Unfortunately, showing tagged files doesn't work. I'll spare you the details as to why, but the result is that if you try to show your tagged files by double-clicking a tag in the tag palette, nothing will come up. There's also a pretty good chance that it will crash the Finder.

Just to be clear, this isn't dangerous. No permanent damage is being done to your data, your tags, or your system - the query functionality just isn't working.

On the other hand, Leopard looks like it's going to help make our tagging experience better in a couple of ways. Spotlight searches have been made faster and more robust, which TagBot will benefit directly from since it uses Spotlight to find your tagged files. Also, any delays in popping up a contextual menu in the Finder that you may have seen should go away due to a change in the way the Finder handles our contextual menu plugin.

And those are just what we get for free, before Pete and I have had the chance to really make TagBot take advantage of the new system's technology improvements.

So when will TagBot be fully compatible with Leopard? Pete and I hope to be able to release a version 1.1.1 update within a week that'll fix TagBot's querying capabilities. In the meantime, feel free to keep using TagBot to apply your tags to files, and you can use Spotlight's query field to search for your tagged files using the "&tagname" syntax. That's all safe and effective.

Finally, Pete and I would like to congratulate everyone at Apple who worked to make Leopard the best update of the best operating system we've ever seen. An incredible amount of work went into Leopard, and as users, Pete and I say "Thanks!".