Is there a way to return the colour folders when using the new tags like the old behavior of labels? These new circle thingees are too small and barely noticable.
OS X Mavericks (10.9)
The workarounds are right above your post.
Do an internet search for XtraFinder OR Total Finder.
Those websites will tell you how to use each of these workarounds.
makey wrote:
You say that you can only offer workarounds, PLEASE tell me what the workarounds are and how to access them.
Many suggestions have been made in this thread. I suggest reading it from the beginning.
Good work, and I'm sure they will give it serious consideration after it's four year absence, whatever Color Folders were.
Good luck as we step into a 5th year without them. I would think the latest generation of Mac users will never have even heard of them.
Cheers for Christmas
Pete
Davros Castle wrote:
I've just upgraded to Mavricks from my best friend Snow Leopard and HATE this new 'feature'. I concur with the other replies- the colours were a vital part of my work flow. I hate you apple.
<http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html>
They will not reply, but it does get read.
Well, that ship has sailed, my friend. Mavericks was released in 2013, and this particular bru-ha-ha pretty much ran its course then. Posting about it now is like yelling hooray after everybody goes to sleep....
Tell Apple. They always listen, even if it has been 3 years since they heard it last: Apple - Feedback
GB
Re: I hate the new tags in Mavericks, need coloured folders!!
Colored labels and folders are not "eye candy" to those with visual impairment.
Why are you and other high "level" respondants in this thread wasting our time:
a) pointing to dysfunctional third party software that requires SIP workarounds (which you also repeatedly mislabel as "simple" solutions), and
b) asserting we are in the minority instead of helping us pursue a solution with Apple?
😮 This thread was not created in defense of Apple. It's persistence and the ongoing efforts of third party develops at TotalFinder and XTraFinder demonstrate that there are significant numbers of Apple OS users who find Apple's decision and continued dismissal unacceptable.
An earlier post illustrating that colored labels exist via Time Machine is sufficient proof that it would not be difficult for Apple to add colored labels back in as an option via prefs. They should do so.
You were using Yosemite a month ago?
Re: I hate the new tags in Mavericks, need coloured folders!!
Glad to see that you recognize the bind this puts a non-techie user in -- as you well defined, these are "normal" users. I hope that any subsequent posts you make in this thread recommending XtraFinder and/or TotalFinder also refer to the SIP workarounds.
Thank you.
Here is what caused the confusion. bpcmemorial replied to this post from me:
Re: I hate the new tags in Mavericks, need coloured folders!!
which was actually a reply to something you posted ~ a month ago.
In turn, I replied to bpcmemorial (thinking they were you).
Sorry for my part in that confusion. Getting back to the point ...
You've repeatedly posted on this thread recommending that others use third party software which you assert is an easy solution to the problem of colored labels (or more properly said, lack of colored labels). You have now clarified that you use Mavericks OS, but many respondents to this thread have stated they are using El Capitan or later OS.
Others have already pointed out that these third party solutions require disabling of System Integrity Protection. But you fail to mention this in your posts.
If you were unaware of the SIP problem previously, now you know.
If your intent in posting to this thread is to help those looking for a solution to the problem, please stop telling people who land here to use software that requires a SIP workaround, unless you also disclose the hassle and potential risks involved.
Thanks.
I like that this thread still exists 🙂 It shows that people still think it was a weird/naff decision.
Also references to the feedback site https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html are great because people often don't think to do it and it only takes a minute!
Out of interest, did any of the apps that bring back this feature ever work without turning off the System Integrity Protection (or some other hack) ?
You say that you can only offer workarounds, PLEASE tell me what the workarounds are and how to access them.
I've now used the Feedback link supplied by Terence Devlin and tried to make the point to Apple there.
Do a search for XtraFinder or Total Finder.
Take you pick of which one to use and use it.
As Idris Seabright has pointed out, this particular ship has long since sailed.
Apple is NOT going to fix an issue with a nearly 4 year old OS X version.
Fortunately, alternatives for this issue still exist.
Good Luck to You!
I submit feedback every single day. This is one of my recurring complaints.
Essentially in 2009 Apple shifted their focus from "User Experience" to "Features" and have since ignored their users whom rely on the workflow and efficiency tools (you know, the people who use Macs for work) and replaced these tools with versions that have more features, but are unhelpful, poorly designed and generally frustrating. This file color tool is one of the indicators of this unfortunate paradigm shift in the company.
Read my last reply and either use one of the two third party altenatives available to you, if you are stll using OS X 10.9, 10.10 and there is a workaround for both these apps for OS X 10.11 EL Capitán.
XtraFinder is free, Total Finder is not.
Apple is NOT going to bring this feature back!
We are 3 iterations of the Mac OS past OS X Mavericks and colored Finder labels have NOT returned to the OS.
If you want to continue beating a dead horse and submitting constant feedback and the like, well...
I hate the new tags in Mavericks, need coloured folders!!
