I hate the new tags in Mavericks, need coloured folders!!

If you like tags,fair enough. Many of us hate the d a m n things. We are not "missing the point". We are,as Silly Old Cdger states,missing the labels!

How did you colour the entire line in Mavericks?

Photoshop or something 😉

I don't think he actually did it in Finder

What a tease! I thought he was onto something there. Oh well,to Apple I must complain....again!

It was in the Preview of a screen shot. I had to make it semi-opaque to get the text to show through... but it was only meant as an example, to accommodate the two things, labels and tags.

With tags I can finally have project based filing again. Perhaps you don't use iCloud.

I love the new Mavericks OS...however, I have a lot of files I used tags on. Now, it is next to impossible to quickly located the labels I had as they was a reason for every color. The small dot is foolishness. If it wasn't broke, why fix it? Nobody compalined before.😕

Seems some techy decided he or she liked dots and they added it....bad decision! I agree with others, it is now at least twice as hard to find my important color coded files. 😠

Sinces Jobs, Mac software has suffered any major ground breaking improvements. Certainly, using these "hard to see" dots would never have been approved by Jobs. Does Apple even listen to us anymore? The labels should be put back in on the next upgrade as an option, so those few who love dots can have fun.

Funny, I see no blog of lovers of the dotted tags!😮

cfe wrote:

Does Apple even listen to us anymore?

cfe ~ Apple will listen here:

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

cfe wrote:

I love the new Mavericks OS...however, I have a lot of files I used tags on. Now, it is next to impossible to quickly located the labels I had as they was a reason for every color. The small dot is foolishness. If it wasn't broke, why fix it? Nobody compalined before.😕

Seems some techy decided he or she liked dots and they added it....bad decision! I agree with others, it is now at least twice as hard to find my important color coded files. 😠

Sinces Jobs, Mac software has suffered any major ground breaking improvements. Certainly, using these "hard to see" dots would never have been approved by Jobs. Does Apple even listen to us anymore? The labels should be put back in on the next upgrade as an option, so those few who love dots can have fun.

Funny, I see no blog of lovers of the dotted tags!😮

Where are you getting your figures from? (so those few who love dots, etc)

Thanks

Pete

cfe wrote:

I love the new Mavericks OS...however, I have a lot of files I used tags on. Now, it is next to impossible to quickly located the labels I had as they was a reason for every color. The small dot is foolishness. If it wasn't broke, why fix it? Nobody compalined before.😕

I agree, but try using the new Tabs in Finder with the new Tags:

The files can be anywhere on your Mac, and with Tags will be listed as:

I think you are confusing "colour labels" in Finder with the new Mavericks "file tag" system. This new system puts meta data ""tags" on individual files. They are viewed from the associated "tag label".

It is a good idea to give each tag name a colour, so that a dot appears in Finder to indicate the file has been tagged. (I don't used colour names as I can't remember what colour does what). A file can have several tags for different uses, so tag labels are more flexible than traditional folders (like albums in iPhoto).

Here are mine, for an example only. Note I tag all iCloud files with a blue tag, so I know which are on my computer and which are not. Also note that I have different apps listed, so it is a project based file system, that includes iCloud files.

Yeah, and the thing is I had all my backgrounds coloured black, so my nicely coloured file names shone out so bright.

Since the upgrade I cant read the file names they now have a little coloured dot only. I have to go in and change the background colour to at least see the file names! 😕

what about view arrange by tags in list view

The examples to support the DOTS are only your concept. In practical use and business use they are horrible and hard to see. Not everyone codes apps or even uses icloud. If we code clients data by type and the folders contain the types and the folders have different tags, it is impossible to sort out like your example.

The real solution is easy, just allow the option of labels or tags or both. That's not hard to program in a Mac OS and it allows the user to chose which is better for them. Not Apple deciding what the user should use. Most of us old time Mac Users really are starting to miss the creativiity and thoughtfulness of jobs. These new program creators are stuck in the World of Tweeting and Apps and not the hands on World of computing for all users. Pretty sad state for future operating systems. When they chose the term "Mavericks" for the new OS, it certainly fits how the new system was programed. It means "persons who refuse to follow the customs or rules of a group." That ceratinly shows in this new OS from Apple.

Sure hoped they would have continued with names like "Bengal Tiger" - "Siberian Tiger" - "Black Panther " - "White Lion" -

cfe I do agree with your comments.

It was unfortunate that the original post on this thread was titled "I hate the new tags in Mavericks, need coloured folders".

Was a shame that it was not just titled "need coloured folders".

As you say the solution is easy, just allow the option of labels or tags or both.

Yes, the solution is easy. Let Tags and Labels coexist. The graphic design is a bit tricky, and the risk of feature confusion is there also. But face it Apple, as great as Tags are, the color aspect of Tags is almost useless.