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

Apple Mac people did a good job with the tagging of the files but they should do also an option in the OS Mavericks to hilight files with different colors like it was before! As many people got already used to it! Hey Apple, you should respect your users more with their customs and habbits otherwise it looks like it has been done for porpouse to mislead users, get them confused and to make them to loose control of what happennig in their computer.

DimsOne1 ~ Welcome to the Support Communities.

DimsOne1 wrote:

Hey Apple, you should respect your users more with their customs and habbits otherwise it looks like it has been done for porpouse to mislead users, get them confused and to make them to loose control of what happennig in their computer.

Apple isn't here. You can send feedback to Apple via this form:

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

(And consider using a spell checker.)

I had already sent them the request to add colourful labelling extra possibility to the tagging in the mavericks. Thanx!!!

I just sent the following message to http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html:

Look at the image in the following link and tell me: what is the title of the file with the yellow label?

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/318214040

Now look at this image: what is the title of the file with the blue tag?https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/318209040

Wasn't it quicker and more convenient to find the answer to the first question? Now you know why so many Mac users (including me) are clamoring for Apple to bring back the Labels feature. Finding individual files in a list is so much easier when the entire line can be highlighted. You can keep Tags, but please give us the option for Labels, too!

If anyone else wants to reuse this message when sending feedback to Apple, please do!

Here's hoping the folks at Apple will get the message and pay attention!

P.S. Thanks for the images, peterleary!

I miss this terribly as well. I was looking online today (just got a new system at work) and wanted to know how to change this. With the recommendation for feedback, I'm afraid I got lost in the array of hardware and don't know where to find feedback for the software. Any suggestions?

LindaJane53 wrote:

With the recommendation for feedback, I'm afraid I got lost in the array of hardware and don't know where to find feedback for the software. Any suggestions?

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

So Pangaea88,

What are the step by step methods that you used to create your link for inputting a proxy image so to speak in your Apple Feedback message as shown below:

I would like to use your technique to send a screen shot of my own.

Thanks,

Peohguy

Add me to this list. Apple change this c'mon! Not a change for the better.

Stone3 wrote:

Add me to this list. Apple change this c'mon!

Stone ~ We can't add you to the list — you add yourself to the list via this form:

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

I could not agree with you more on this subject. here is my issue pertaining to the same "new" changes in this whole tagging business.

for someone like myself, who has not just varied hobbies and intweretsts, but has varied JOBS/Careers and more. This instant Blue folder has my braing trained quickly to know this is where i bounce my final or processed audio files and songs. The RED fully coloured folder is for the all-music section of my HD, bringing me to the blue folder amungst others in this category.

running my own graphic design firm/creative agency, These labels vary from important outstanding invoices owed to me, right down to the type of industry my clients seem to be organized into on my HD, again, for instamt access for my briain to click.

i see how these new "tags" need getting used to and I also see the importance of these usees. but I DO FEEL that they have taken more than they have provided in this case.

Im begging for an update that lets thw user go back to that filing format...like chose one of the other perminantly or somehting.

this way you dont created a conflict in filing.

fingers crossed Apple, take me baxck to this!

Colin White, Ottawa, ON,CA

Speak to Apple directly:

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

Thanks

MtD

Feedback submitted. Gawd awful "upgrade". 🙂

How right you all are - the itty-bitty colour points are useless. And please Apple get us back the choice to colour our folder and file names.For now the only solution is colouring entire folders - and here is how to do at least that:

(For me the old version meant - mauve = original text, blue = information, yellow = pdf version, red = corrected/revised version and green = ready to use/publish/send ...)

Go to Help in the finder and ask for "change icon" in the search field

1. Choose a picture you want to use - for instance a simple field coloured red

2. Open in Preview - go to Edit, Select All and then Copy

3. Select file or folder you want to change - choose File - Get Info

4. Click the icon on top to select it and choose Edit - Paste

Ok - complicated and not as before, but at least it allows you to create coloured folders to sort your files

Suzanne

These are great. Thanks for the link. :-)

It is a step up from the new "Tags". I would still like Apple to give back ability to highlight the entire "row". I have left feedback. Fingers crossed they will listen.

Just adding to the consensus here. I'm also a graphic designer, and used finder labels to organize my project folders (hot, warm, cold, billed, paid, etc.) The new tags are visually useless. Please provide an option to color the entire folder, or row, or something!