I have a MacBook Pro running Tahoe 26.1. I understand how to change a folder's color and welcome this capability for organizing my files. However, how do I make a folder color change also change the folder colors within a folder, through multiple levels of folder content? I keep my work content on my computer, and I would like to color change all the subfolders within my work folder to the same color.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.1
I kind of worked out a way to achieve this goal. The objective was to change all of the folders within a path to a non-default color (in my case, change all of my job/work finder folders from the default blue to green). What I did was create and save a custom Spotlight search that returns a list of all sub-folders within a path (my work folder). Once that list is returned in finder, I select all the folders and change their color property to green. Somewhat inelegant, but it gets the job done.
I kind of worked out a way to achieve this goal. The objective was to change all of the folders within a path to a non-default color (in my case, change all of my job/work finder folders from the default blue to green). What I did was create and save a custom Spotlight search that returns a list of all sub-folders within a path (my work folder). Once that list is returned in finder, I select all the folders and change their color property to green. Somewhat inelegant, but it gets the job done.
You could likely set up a Shortcut to achieve what you want to do, I'm not aware of any way using options in Finder to have Tags applied to successively enclosed subfolders. However, you can select several folders at once and apply a Tag, and if you expand enclosed folders (in List View), that tag will be applied to all of them.
Well done!
Change finder folder colors for multiple levels of subfolder?
