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

One thing you can do is add a tags column to Finder. If you select the Home folder and do this, you can then select the layout as default.

It feels like someone has gone into my personal book collection and erased all of the pages I have meticulously hilighted over many years.

It is hard to describe how traumatic it is to loose the colored file labels. And I am not being overdramatic using the word traumatic. I am actually feeling depressed about the possibility of working from now on without a feature I have relied on for so many years. I

This change has really thrown me for a loop and slowed me down in the Finder. The tiny dots are not as "glancable" as colored hilghts across the name of a file or folder. In list view, the dots are almost disassociated from the files names being so far from them. What used to be a single glance at colored stripes, is now a shifting of eyes back and forth, switching from reading to color recognition, to reading to verify, to checking the colors again.

It sounds whiney to complain about such a seemingly small thing, but I am quite surprised myself to find out how much I relied on hilighted file names, and what a different cognitive exercise simple file management has become now.

I used to be able to fly though file management with confidence knowing that I just need to grab particular files. Now I am filled with doubt, and find myself having to read and re-read long files names constantly double checking and verifying. The finder has become stress inducing.

Sure, there are lots of alternative ways to find and manage files, but none as easy and glancibly quick as hilighted file names.

I have left a simular message as this at http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

If it is that traumatising, then just reinstall the System backup you made withTime Machine or Bootable Clone from before you installed Mavericks.

Cheers

Pete

Great description of the loss. Last week, when I upgraded to Mavericks, I posted that "I miss my color labels. Please bring them back." Then Apple sent me a message that my post was not appropriate and Apple took to down. I was stunned at their insensitivity. I've sent Apple several official feedbacks asking for the color labels to be restored. But your analogy to your personal collection and painstaking efforts being destroyed is the best. Thank you.

Pontotoc Peg wrote:

Last week, when I upgraded to Mavericks, I posted that "I miss my color labels. Please bring them back." Then Apple sent me a message that my post was not appropriate and Apple took to down. I was stunned at their insensitivity.

How did you contact Apple and how did they contact you back?

Pete

My experience has been that to stand still with old OS doesn't work the best. Apple is capable of having both systems-tags and labels. Thanks.

I should have the link, Pete. But if you scan these posts, some efficient people have posted the link. I'll try and find it, too.

hi tracy. yeah, my whole desktop on my mac pro is organized "geographically" on the desktop by theme and then organized by /importance/ or type of activity simply based upon the coloring of the file or folder in that "geographic theme" or basically that area of the desktop. then this cascades down through folders in the Documents folder - and elsewhere. for instance if i need to know where a particularly corruptible file is then i will highlight the file in the library in the mail folder and hightlight on up through the heirarchy so i can follow this "birdseed trail" to get myself accustomed to knowing where this file is on my hard drive in a way that an alias cannot.

there is a huge amount of visual data there that i would be simply lost without. if i am not mistaken this has been a feature of mac since the stone ages.

anyway, i am very fortunate (i guess) in that my beloved mac pro is so old that i cannot upgrade beyond lion or it would be a sad day indeed.

having the laptop on Maverick with the loss of this feature is rather aggravating but i am thanking my lucky starts i did not lose this mission critical set of organizational tools on the desktop.

in short i am feeling for you...

Remember to post a quick report to apple, http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Here is the link.

If it is that traumatising, then just reinstall the System backup you made withTime Machine or Bootable Clone from before you installed Mavericks.

Pontotoc Peg puts it well. Standing still with an old OS is not advisable.

Pontotoc Peg wrote:

Apple is capable of having both systems-tags and labels. Thanks.

And you know this how? You are familiar with the Mavericks complex coding?

Pete

Totally agree with you.

petermac87 wrote:

And you know this how? You are familiar with the Mavericks complex coding?

Not meaning to be snarky Pete, I know this because the hilighted file name still appear in many file requesters. I will try and find an example and psot a pic.

No, I am not an IT whiz. But I'm banking that Apple has some of these folks in their employ. I don't think snide remarks are called for. Others and I are merely expressing our opinions and hopes. As a poster said: "it's human."

Tracy E wrote:

If it is that traumatising, then just reinstall the System backup you made withTime Machine or Bootable Clone from before you installed Mavericks.

Pontotoc Peg puts it well. Standing still with an old OS is not advisable.

Why not? Snow Leopard (10.6.8) is still oe of the most popular OSXs for example. Mountain Lion is barely any different to Mavericks. You have updated within a week of release without waiting to read reports of changes, problems, benefits, etc. You say that you are actually depressed over the loss of a feature in Mavericks, yet in the same breath say that you have to update (within a week) because standing still is not advisable? Not advised by who?

Cheers

Pete