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