I've created a custom filetype named "txt" and saved your posted tags
file and then I could load it successfully.

So, I assume there is something wrong with your configuration.
Could you post your filetype configuration for "txt"?

Regards,
Enrico


On 14.10.21 22:09, Rue Sixteen wrote:
> Hi Enrico
>
> I do. When I go to the tab I was hoping to get the tags to autocomplete,
> Document > Set FileType shows txt checked.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:02 PM Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger@uvena.de
> <mailto:enrico.troeger@uvena.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Rue,
>
>      > I recently had to reinstall after an SSD death. However geany is not
>      > accepting my tag files. These are the same ones I used for a long
>     time
>      > before. They are in pipe format. I tried loading them from Tools
>      > Load
>      > Tags.
>      > In the status bar below, it says "Could not load tags file
>     .....". In
>      > the debug message it says "Unknown filetype for file ..."
>      >
>      > I created a simple file and called it simple.txt.tags and it has the
>
>     do you have any filetype configured with the extensions ".txt"?
>     The filename part before ".tags", in your case "txt" need to match a
>     known filetype for Geany. This filetype is used to load the tags for as
>     tags are always bound to filetypes.
>
>
>     Regards,
>     Enrico
>
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