Q: New tags issue from labels in Mavericks
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Oct 23, 2013 8:23 AMby Topher Kessler,Try changing the color of the desired tag in the Tags section of the Finder preferences, or by clicking the All Tags section in the Finder sidebar. To change th color, right-click the tag and choose a different color for it, and that should apply to all documents labeled with this tag, across the board.
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Oct 23, 2013 9:17 AMby spaabus,I am actually trying to remove the Tags color completely from these documents and folders so I can start over with my organizing. When I address/highlight those documents and folders in the finder window the "Edit Tags" button in the "Toolbar" is disabled. When I do a "Get Info" on that document or folder I can see the Tags at the very top of the info window but it is not editable there either.
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Oct 28, 2013 8:39 PMby mechaRedPanda,It seems to be 'breaking' in different ways for different iMacs in my office.
For instance, on my iMac, the tag 'dots' don't appear unless I select the folder in question. Once I navigate away from the Finder column, it disappears. None of my 'tags' collection links on the left side on Finder work for me.
On another iMac (same generation and specs as the one above), only some of the tags appear to stay between Finder relaunches, but some just do not appear again ever.
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Mar 10, 2014 9:55 AMby demisjohn,In pre-Maverik's OS's, I sometimes had the same problem with Labels - I couldn't change them.
Unlocking them often did the traick (as you tried), but sometimes I also needed to ensure my user had read/write permissions. You also do this in the [Get Info] window - either change you user's permissions to read/write, or if your user isn't in the list, hit the [+] under permissions and add your user & set to read/write.
I suspect you already checked this, but putting it out there just in case.
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May 13, 2014 9:06 AMby HappyTexas,Love it that you describe the situation as "breaking" because that's just how I feel about the totally useless tagging ordeal that came with Mavericks. Archiving files used to be so quick and easy. Now it's a constant battle with a robot or a mission I've abandoned altogether. Abandoning it means my computer is now far less valuable than it was before Mavericks. (Not such a good way to treat still-loyal customers, Apple.)
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May 13, 2014 2:16 PMby HappyTexas,Apple DOES routinely monitor these discussions, Eric, because they delete my messages when they don't like my complaints. How do I know? Because they send me email notifications identifying which posts they pull and why.
I've done all the feedback stuff. Repeatedly. It hasn't proven itself to be a constructive expenditure of my time . . . a lot like forums, here and everywhere.
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May 19, 2014 12:02 PMby demisjohn,The way I removed all my tags (or actually, I converted them to another tag) was to utilize the new Sidebar feature that Spotlight Searches for specific Tags.
So you add Tags to your Finder window sidebar (Finder: Prefs: Sidebar: [√] Recent Tags)
then click on one of those tags to show you all files that have that tag in the entire system (as indexed by Spotlight search).
Select All (Command-A) - sometimes takes a few seconds
Show Inspector (Command-Option-I, or hold Option while looking at the File menu)
You will see that now you can add or remove tags from the entire selection. Thus you can remove one tag (eg. a defualt 10.9 tag) and add instead your own custom tag (eg. Yellow/'1' or something).
(This necessitates that you made your custom tag in the Finder Prefs already.)
