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

I'm not sure how to reply in this forum correctly yet. My above comment was meant for another person.

I'm trying to see how Peohguy got the options that he is describing... Can anyone explain how he got those menus to show up?

Bugaboo4ever sa-d in his last reply:

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I'm not sure how to reply in this forum correctly yet. My above comment was meant for another person.

I'm trying to see how Peohguy got the options that he is describing... Can anyone explain how he got those menus to show up?

If you have XtraFinder then the top right of your ribbon on your iMack should look like this:

Just click on the XtraFinder happy face with your left Mouse button and you will get the drop down menu with Preferences showing like this:

Left Click on Preferences and you will get another Drop Down Menu. Left click on the Appearance Tab and check the Legacy label coloring box and the 2 others under it and what ever else you may desire. 🙂

Sorry for the clutter but someone said, I'm Confused who, that a picture is worth 10,000 words, yes 10,000, count them, and not 1,000 as is so commonly misquoted.

Peohguy 😎

Thanks for your reply.

Now I understand that ExtraFinder is an additional App.that is installed to modify the Finder. Kept trying to find it in the system preferences.... I see there is also TotalFInder as well. Any preference on which is better?

Thanks again.

Bugaboo4ever wrote:

Thanks for your reply.

Now I understand that ExtraFinder is an additional App.that is installed to modify the Finder. Kept trying to find it in the system preferences.... I see there is also TotalFInder as well. Any preference on which is better?

Thanks again.

I looked at TotalFinder as well and for some reason I did not like it as well as Xtrafinder. I also tried Pathfinder and also didn't like it as well as Xtrafinder. Xtrafinder seems to work seamlessly with Apple's Finder and all of the preferences that you put in XtraFinder are part of Finder when you open it up to look at your files. I'm not an Apple Guru (I only have one token Apple under my ID Avatar) so I can only tell you what I like and what I think I know with little or no depth in how the OS works. I used to be a Windows user and am fairly new to Apple.

Check out this app - we've just downloaded it and it seems to work perfectly for now! http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/

Thanks for your comment.

XtraFinder seems to provide what I want in terms of Tag colors, but I saw that TotalFinder does similar things but also works along side TotalSpaces2. TotalSpaces2 provided a solution to another "new" feature of OS X that i Hate, which is the move away from a grid of virtual desktops to the line of "spaces" in mission controll at the top of the screen.

Completely baffles me why Apple would take a brilliant solution and mess it up. Seems like their MO lately.

In 3+ updates their is not a single change to the OS that I have seen to improve anything , from Mail to Calendar and everything else.

Maybe there are a bunch system level bug fixes, and security fixes, but those are not transparent to the normal 'user'.

However in defense of Apple I heard form a Teck sport person who had worked at apple, that they rank changes often by the volume of questions and help support, and apparently the virtual desktop /grid version of Spaces caused a huge amount of confusion, and few used it. So they changed it. Hopefully their decisions are based on rational feedback like that and not some person in an ivory-computer-tower, who just "thinks" all these changes are better.

I wonder why they can't just make all of these system changes and cosmetic changes options in System Preferences, instead of pleasing 60%, and screwing up the other 40% that their new changes do not work for.... Make the new ideas the default settings but allow people like me who have a very hard time with some of there "better" ideas to select other settings. Maybe this adds to code-bloat, or, maybe they just like being format dictators... ?

I'll write back after I implement TotalFinder & TotalSpaces2 - hopefully they will play nice with the finder and other programs.

"I wonder why they can't just make all of these system changes and cosmetic changes options in System Preferences, instead of pleasing 60%, and screwing up the other 40% that their new changes do not work for.... Make the new ideas the default settings but allow people like me who have a very hard time with some of there "better" ideas to select other settings. "

That's an idea that appeals to me - so we can choose our tags or labels etc.

Shaun Ferguson wrote:

"I wonder why they can't just make all of these system changes and cosmetic changes options in System Preferences, instead of pleasing 60%, and screwing up the other 40% that their new changes do not work for.... Make the new ideas the default settings but allow people like me who have a very hard time with some of there "better" ideas to select other settings. "

That's an idea that appeals to me - so we can choose our tags or labels etc.

If it was 60/40 you might have a point,

Tell Apple what you would like, that way they can get accurate feedback.

I really haven't used Mission Control that much, right now it is nothing more than a curiosity. But I do like your idea of Apple implementing changes and their so called better ideas by making them a part of Preferences. That way you could customize your OS to something that you really like. This looks like a good idea to pass back to the Apple Orchard in the Apple Feedback link.

Let me know how your experience with TotalFinder Works out.

TotalFinder and XtraFinder are used by many. Most who use them are reporting positive results. I found them a bit cumbersome for my needs, but it is good to see some third parties picking up tbe options slack for those who need or prefer it. Very few negative reports here on either.

Cheers

Pete

petermac87.

Thanks for the info on TotalFinder. I have been using XtraFinder and do like it a lot and have not had a pressing need to try anything else such as Totalfinde, but I may give it a try to see how it feels.

I do like the colored folders of XtraFinder which I find useful when assigning colors to files that I have been accumulating when researching information for my family tree. Once I get a color code figured out for my particular use, which is not what most genealogy sites and blogs push, it should be even better. I have never really appreciated colored folders or files in the past since I always worked with ms windows and the indentured file and sub file folder system of theirs fitted my engineering mind (say AR) perfectly. But the Apple structure seems to be much better suited to colored labels, folders or tags. and I do find that Search Light is incredibly fast and helpful. I only wish that Apple would employ the same feature in their Finder search of keeping the same name or items in the search window when I switch from say "All My Files" to one of my other hard drives, Like they do in the edit "Find" feature of Pages or Numbers, etc.

But I ramble.

Thanx again.

agree completely, tags worse than labels, calendar preferences crashes my OS every time i try to access it, scroll bars?, etc. give me back my computer! if i want a phone i'll buy a phone!!!

Thanks for the contribution. Try as mentioned above.

Cheers

Pete

Isn't that just adding steps? Adding time and steps to complete a task should not be considered progress. I'm finding each iteration of OSX goes backwards in ease of functionality. If you don't organize in the exact way as Apple's execs you are screwed!

Thanks for sharing, but this is a user to user technical forum. We are not Apple. If you wish to share your thoughts with Apple, do so here:

Apple - Feedback

Cheers,

GB