How to highlight the entire folder with the tag color, as before?

Please Please Please change it back to having the whole label in colour - the point is to highlight!

This new style does not highlight and is too subtle.

Thanks and feedback sent.

Please fix.

vs

Add me to the discontented list also...

I do like the whole 'tags' concept and can see myself using it a lot, but the ability to colour the folder and the line is a visual concept I need returned... The dots are too small, too easily missed.

I can see, though, how the coloured line / folder would clash with the 'multiple' tags that I can now add to folders / files, but I'm sure there will be a way around that... One suggestion being to have a separate column beside the name column, showing multiple tags (where present) while the folder takes the colour of the highest priority tag?

A couple of people have also mentioned the 'dot' being on the right - true. Beside the file/folder name would have been much more intuitive, or the ability to move it as a separate column... (see comment above re multiple tags)

Keep tags - but give us back the ability to colour the folders...!

(Yes, I have sent my feedback Apple! If you have a heartfelt opinion on it, I encourage readers to contact them too, but give your suggestions, not just the gripes!)

Cheers!

S.G. ~ It doesn't bring back colored labels, but see this post for coloring folder icons.

I add another vote to restore a color label on files and folders. Pre-Mavericks I used labels to highlight folders to assist with work task priorties. The tags are not as effective for that use. I have posted requests for 2 changes if labels are not restored:

- be able to place the tag dots to the left of the file/folder names in list formats so that tag color is visually prominent,

- when sorting files/folders as icons/list/columns by tags - be able to turn off the tag name header for each of the tag groups. The tag header takes up a lot of visual real estate on the screen, unnecessary as the sidebar also contains the tag labels. I want to be able to sort the files/folders by tag when viewing, but I don't need the header to remind me why they are grouped.

Oh, that's rather nice! Admittedly, as many are saying, not as good as the original 'labels' which included files, but still very good and helpful. Much appreciated!

🙂

I can't believe how bad apple has gotten in seeing the obvious... tags are a downgrade from labels... please fix this quick for all of us who are already stuck on Mavericks. Last time I "upgrade" so quickly.

Mg ~ Welcome to the Support Communities.

Mg7707 wrote:

please fix this quick

We can't fix it — we're just users like yourself. To ask Apple to fix it, use this form:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Yes! I'm so glad I'm not the only one.

I also used labels to highlight important folders and files. Now in Mavericks you have to trace across to see the little dot. Not to mention if you are on the road with a 13" display, so quite often windows are running off the display, so you can't even see the dot till you move it in. Not to mention that the full-name label colours gave the eye visual clues about more than just important files- they built a sort of structure that helped you navigate the rest of the folder.

As a designer myself, this really makes me want to round up some designers from Apple and slap them upside the head. Yes, I'd tell them, I know making everything sorta monotone and subdued looks nice. The dots instead of whole-name-labels look more tasteful, I agree. BUT THEY DON'T WORK, and that has got to come first!! Yes I agree, the labels in mountain lion could appear a bit too childish - but that could have been fixed by not using gradients and by modyfing the standard colours a tiny bit to be less garish.

Yeah, I too have found myself wondering how they could be made to look nicer without taking away functionality. Notice those four words? The MOST important thing is that they worked. These silly new dots do NOT work. Form follows function.

ughhhhhh! Go back to design school! 😠 😠 😢

you should tweet that image at apple. or something.. is that how twitter works?

peterleary wrote:

vs

Here’s my feedback sent to http://www.apple.com/feedback/

The visual subtlety of the new tag system that has replaced the old label system is not appreciated by me.

The ability to color, or more specifically, HIGHLIGHT specific files and folders was very useful.

Perhaps it could be brought back as an option?

Feel free to copy.

Please complain!

I just found out PathFinder may have this feature. The developer Cocoatech tweeted a screencap of it, even though it doesn't seem to be listed as a feature on their website.

Of course we would all prefer Apple to do this instead so we don't have to buy third party software just for a feature that should never have been taken away in the first place.. but here we are.

I totally agree with you.. Apple should have never removed this feature.. i too like most users, had my folders colour coded to help me find them and make my life easier and more efficient.

I hate how apple doesnt listen to its customer's feedback and how they are trying to lock us in more and more with less and less choices..

Bring back OSX' s status as a truly powerful and capable and open and compatible operating system

Thank God for android which gave me a choice away from ios. now apple is pushing me away from their main OS...

Good job apple.