File system that uses tags rather than folders?

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My files are a mess, I try to structure them into folders with names that describe what they are in a recursive class break-down sense but later on I have trouble finding the file again when I go looking for it (the one file can possibly exist in many folders).

What file system will allow me to find my files by a combination of tags instead of using folders?

If there was such a file system, I'm not sure how OSes would cope, being so deeply dependent on the folder system. I came across tag2find, which isn't too bad; it solves my problem with finding stuff for now but it is an application, not a file system.

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I came across this question while asking myself the same question about filesystem file tags. I then came across this application for Windows XP/Vista called TaggedFrog that may do the trick. Haven't tried it yet, but it looks promising.

Not looking forward to going through 1000s of files though! At any rate, I'll be forced to upgrade to Win7 at some point and can try its native tagging.

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