How do you organize your personal folders and files on your Mac

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@Jonathan_Davis

Do all of my backups (particularly in the cloud) maintain the tags. Embedding information into the file names and folder structure is cross-platform for any system or storage of the past couple decades.

True, though I intend to use Mac for some time.

I’d recommend you check whether you can restore a tagged file from backup and actually get the tags back. Only iCloud among the major cloud services maintains tags on iOS ( see Finder tags on iOS ) - Dropbox will transfer them from one Mac to another but not to other systems. Checking Backblaze now…

Update: the ZIP file from Backblaze when unzipped does not have the tags that were on the file I backed up. Interestingly zipping and unzipping on the Mac itself does preserve tags.

Another thing to test which I can’t do at the moment is whether external HD that are not formatted in AFS or HFS retain tags. I doubt it. If you haven’t been reformatting external drives before using for backup, they may be in NTFS or even FAT32 & hence not preserving tags.