Controlling the bloated number of tags shown in Finder's sidebar

[JohnAtl]

I had this problem a while back and wound up with a couple thousand tags, thanks to DEVONthink and/or my lack of knowledge. Here’s are some command-line strategies to remove them. Caveat emptor.

Crap load of tags

I imported thousands of emails into DEVONthink, and had the options set so that it created tags for All Of The Things. Helpful things like: 1, 2, 3, … 0x031b, added, actions, everyone@everywhere.com, etc. Any recommendations for a utility that works with tags, allows mass deletions, etc.? It seems like they have to be deleted in the file system, as they “come back” when I delete them in DEVONthink 3.