As some of you have noticed, there are some nagging problems with the version of AtomicParsley that is embedded in Lostify 0.7.  These problems don’t manifest themselves in all use cases, but if you’re trying to do certain things, you’ve probably encountered errors where Lostify was unable to tag files.  The problems occur sometimes when you’re trying to apply tags directly to (overwriting) a file that has already been tagged in the past.  This, in turn, happens: (1) whenever you’re invoking Lostify from iTunes; or (2) whenever you use the destination modes of “Same (Backup, then overwrite)” or “Same (Just overwrite)”.  In either of these cases, tagging files that have already been tagged in the past by Lostify will often fail.  The bug was introduced by some changes in AtomicParsley, the underlying tagging engine upon which Lostify is based.  The AtomicParsley team has not been particularly active in fixing bugs or furthering development for the past 8 months, so I’m looking into this myself and hope to be able to find & fix or work around the issues.  In the mean time, you should be able to avoid the problems by following these guidelines:

• If you’re going to invoke Lostify from within iTunes, do so only on files that have not already been tagged by Lostify;
• Otherwise, always invoke Lostify directly on the desired files from within Finder, and make sure the destination file mode is “Same (Trash original & replace)”.

Hopefully I’ll get these issues ironed out before too much longer.  Sorry about the problems, and have a Merry Christmas.