S. G.
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Q: How to highlight the entire folder with the tag color, as before?

I've always highlighted important folders with colors, so that they stand out among others in a list for quicker access. Now in Mavericks list view, there is only a small color dot to the right of the folder's name (sometimes very far from the folder's name if the column is large). As a result, it is much harder to pick important folders. Is there any way to apply the tag color to the whole folder, as it used to be in all previous systems? Or at the very least, to move the dot to the left of the folder name within lists, as in Icon view? I really hope Apple did not remove this feature simply for the sake of design. Thanks.

MacBook Air + iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 2:14 PM

by S. G.,Solvedanswer
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A:

Someone on another thread suggested this free app, XtraFinder, and it's great:

 

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/42067/xtrafinder

 

You can add colors back to the entire name (slightly less pretty than with previous OS but good enough) of the folder in list view or icon view. As a result, colored folders and files jump at you again in list view, as they used to. XtraFinder appears to use the last tag color that was added, if you use multiple tags and may show as various colors in a sorted tag view.

 

You can also add colors to the sidebar, thereby removing the need for the extra extension SideEffects.

Posted on Jun 12, 2014 3:16 PM

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  • by wyrmsmaug,

    wyrmsmaug wyrmsmaug May 25, 2014 3:18 AM in response to Alancito
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    May 25, 2014 3:18 AM in response to Alancito

    Yup - got that, thx...

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 25, 2014 3:43 AM in response to wyrmsmaug
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    May 25, 2014 3:43 AM in response to wyrmsmaug

    wyrmsmaug wrote:

     

    (Now, Apple, about those missing hyperlinks within a document in Pages...)

    What?

     

    Screen Shot 2014-05-25 at 11.42.47.png

  • by francisl,

    francisl francisl May 25, 2014 4:12 AM in response to Csound1
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    May 25, 2014 4:12 AM in response to Csound1

    Or Cmd+K as almost always.... (Mail, etc.)

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 25, 2014 4:21 AM in response to francisl
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    May 25, 2014 4:21 AM in response to francisl

    Yup, but that's harder to take a picture of

  • by francisl,

    francisl francisl May 25, 2014 4:36 AM in response to Csound1
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    May 25, 2014 4:36 AM in response to Csound1

    You're so clumsy!

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 25, 2014 8:15 AM in response to francisl
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    May 25, 2014 8:15 AM in response to francisl

    Fat fingers

  • by wyrmsmaug,

    wyrmsmaug wyrmsmaug May 25, 2014 10:10 PM in response to Csound1
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    May 25, 2014 10:10 PM in response to Csound1

    Sorry, yes, I know about adding links, but I am referring to links as in bookmarks, linking within a document to another part of the same document.

    "Add link" in Pages 5 only gives the option to link an email or a web page.

     

    It was functional in Pages 4.3 but has not yet been added back in with the new Pages... One assumes it will at some stage.

    There are several discussions on it around here somewhere...

     

    But thx for the thought.

  • by S. G.,Solvedanswer

    S. G. S. G. Jun 12, 2014 3:16 PM in response to Laralyn10
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    Jun 12, 2014 3:16 PM in response to Laralyn10

    Someone on another thread suggested this free app, XtraFinder, and it's great:

     

    http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/42067/xtrafinder

     

    You can add colors back to the entire name (slightly less pretty than with previous OS but good enough) of the folder in list view or icon view. As a result, colored folders and files jump at you again in list view, as they used to. XtraFinder appears to use the last tag color that was added, if you use multiple tags and may show as various colors in a sorted tag view.

     

    You can also add colors to the sidebar, thereby removing the need for the extra extension SideEffects.

  • by karien1972,

    karien1972 karien1972 Jul 30, 2014 5:34 AM in response to S. G.
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    Jul 30, 2014 5:34 AM in response to S. G.

    Yes please Apple Inc, can we have the old way back. It is a nightmare when you have many folders!

  • by Telperia,

    Telperia Telperia Aug 26, 2014 12:08 PM in response to karien1972
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    Aug 26, 2014 12:08 PM in response to karien1972

    I agreed whole-heartedly! I hate the new tags. They are utterly useless to me. I just migrated the files from my old Mac Pro running Snow Leopard to my new Mavericks Mac, and what a shock when I saw that all my distinctive, and easy to read, coloured-labels had been converted to tiny dots.  I have always used the coloured labels to indicate progress and status of files and folders (green for finished, yellow for in progress, red for archived, etc). I'm a publisher, so keeping track of thousands of text files is critically important. My desktop looks now looks like a confused sea of folder and file lists. This will take me days to sort out. No wonder a common search thread on google is "How do I downgrade from Mavericks to Snow Leopard?"

  • by Peohguy,

    Peohguy Peohguy Aug 26, 2014 4:40 PM in response to Telperia
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    Aug 26, 2014 4:40 PM in response to Telperia

    You should look into XtraFinder, while it's not perfect it's gives colored folders which is better than dots.  I'm sure Apple would like to be able to go back to their colored folders, but I think they either forgot how to or just don't have the know how.

  • by jamesk8752,

    jamesk8752 jamesk8752 Apr 6, 2015 2:12 PM in response to Peohguy
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    Apr 6, 2015 2:12 PM in response to Peohguy

    You can't have multiple colored folders as you can with tag dots.  That said, I was willing to do without multiple dots so I use Xtrafinder to get back my colored folders.  So far it's working for me...

  • by Nosamp,

    Nosamp Nosamp Apr 26, 2015 11:37 PM in response to jamesk8752
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    Apr 26, 2015 11:37 PM in response to jamesk8752

    I take it there is still no change with this?
    This drives me nuts as I used the tag tool all the time.
    Shame, this thread was started 2 & 1/2 years ago and by the looks of it Apple have done nothing to even give the option to have it the old way?!
    Still hoping this will change....

  • by peterleary,

    peterleary peterleary Apr 26, 2015 11:43 PM in response to Nosamp
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    Apr 26, 2015 11:43 PM in response to Nosamp

    Yeah the new dots are still the only way (unless you use a third party explorer).

    I miss the old coloured lables, they were actually super useful (unlike the dots).

  • by Nosamp,

    Nosamp Nosamp Apr 27, 2015 12:12 AM in response to peterleary
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    Apr 27, 2015 12:12 AM in response to peterleary

    That's just rubbish, at least give us the option to change it, most of us are responsible adults after all...

     

    Come on Apple, listen to what your users want!

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