How do you add tags to file folders

Stephen and Angela

You are not alone - apparently we are at least 3 people who wants to add tags to folders.

 I have a list of Projects arranged in folders by Country. I wanted to change the structure of the list to be a list of project-numbers in folders tagged with country, customerno and productno.

Very disappointing that I was not able to do this.

Someone is trying to tell you how. As their name doesn't have english characters I suggest you need to read carefully to get his/her meaning.

In the folders you want to have tags you need to do this.

Create a file in that folder called desktop.ini.

Paste this into it.

[.ShellClassInfo]

[{F29F85E0-4FF9-1068-AB91-08002B27B3D9}]

Prop2=31,Title

Prop3=31,Subject

Prop4=31,Author

Prop5=31,Tags

Prop6=31,Comment

changing the words how you want.

Then type the following commands in a command prompt.

attrib +s +h "c:\The Folder\desktop.ini"

attrib +r "c:\The Folder"

We can put this in a bat file.

@Echo on

pushd %1 >nul 2>&1 

set /p Tags=Enter tags for this folder :

pause

If errorlevel 0 if not errorlevel 1 (

echo [.ShellClassInfo]>>"%~1\desktop.ini"

echo [{F29F85E0-4FF9-1068-AB91-08002B27B3D9}]>>"%~1\desktop.ini"

echo Prop2=31,Title>>"%~1\desktop.ini"

echo Prop3=31,Subject>>"%~1\desktop.ini"

echo Prop4=31,Author>>"%~1\desktop.ini"

echo Prop5=31,%Tags%>>"%~1\desktop.ini"

echo Prop6=31,Comment>>"%~1\desktop.ini"

attrib +h +s "%~1\desktop.ini"

attrib +r "%~1"

)

goto endof

If errorlevel 1 Echo %~nx1 is not a folder

:endof

Popd

If /i "%cmdcmdline:~0,6%"=="cmd /c" pause

Create a text file with above in it on the desktop. Name it "TagFolder.bat" (use the quotes in the filename box when saving), drop a folder on it and it will tag it.

attrib.exe +r folder_path

notepad.exe folder_path\desktop.ini

[{F29F85E0-4FF9-1068-AB91-08002B27B3D9}]

Prop2=31,Title

Prop3=31,Subject

Prop4=31,Author

Prop5=31,Tag

Prop6=31,Comment

Lisa, You did not really answer the question because the article you point to only describes how to add tags to files.  The question is whether you can add tags to FOLDERS.  That's the specific question I came to this site to find out about... hope the answer is YES! Thanks for any info you can provide.