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

I am still full of hope that Apple may eventually see the error of their ways and reinstate some form of coloured labels. But in the meantime it looks like I will be giving XtraFinder a go.

Presuming that the latest version is 1.9.1

Excellent... I am now once again able to colour the full length of a file name. (So much better than just a silly little coloured dot).

All I need now is the ability to easily add colour to the folders which sit on my desktop. (Without having to go through a process of 'cut & paste'.

Ha, Silly Old Codger, I was just returning to this thread to mention the unfortunate absence of colored (alias) folders on the desktop. It was how I differentiated current project. Nevertheless, after months of not noticing dots, I'm extremely pleased to see entire lines of color. The Tabs feature is pretty cool, too!

Probably the war will 'peter' out. And lets hope Apple will bring back labels!

I second that, genk. Probably certain self-appointed czars of this board realize that the wind has suddenly dropped out of the sails. And who cares now what the big pomegranate in California thinks or does not think about our issue? Well, I sort of hope they'll listen up anyway. But xtrafinder is so smooth, enhances rather than replaces the Finder, and has other cool features to explore. That is where I will turn to for added features, like the colored folder icons suggestion from Silly Old Codger and Grrregerr, and that are actually a part of the original discussion. I passed that suggestion on to trankyam, and suggest that you do the same, as they seem actively to be updating their program.

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Hello Host!

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Could you please pass on to Apple our question of bringing back coloured labels?

(many of us have already filled in the feedback form)

Thanks

genk wrote:

 

Hello Host!

 

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Could you please pass on to Apple our question of bringing back coloured labels?

(many of us have already filled in the feedback form)

 

Thanks

You do that yourself, as you have done. Now you just have to wait and hope that enough others do the same to convince Apple to bring the old feature back.

Cheers

Pete

The 3 things I now like best abouyt Xtrafinder are:

1. The color labels (don't really care if Apple brings it back now, although I wouldn't mind being able to turn off the circles and just keep the labels)

2. color icons in the finder sidebar

3. It's FREE!!!  

Of course Pete, of course....

I can't believe something good came out of the Pete-vs-Pete wars!   (Good Lord.....)

- but while this is certainly great to have,  I'm not crazy about the look of the colors.  Too dark.

Does anyone know if there's a way to lighen them?  (I don't see anything in the prefs)

Also,  Does anyone know if there's a way to have the FOLDERS colored, but not the text?  IMO, that would be much better.

Cableaddict, this is an interesting study in contrasting tastes. I LOVE the colors; they're much bolder! My screen looks fantastic. I LOVE the way they cover the text as before. I'd suggest customization options (colored folders, in your case) and color adjustments from the software developer.

As grdh20mentioned, the colored icons in Finder sidebar are very cool, and furthers the directive of visual reinforcement to avoid having to read text all day. And, it's aesthetic.

Column width parameter settings; if that has been available elsewhere, I've never noticed it. Very smart.

But, the point of this thread is COLORED LABELS, and were that the only feature of Xtrafinder, I'd download it. Of the other 3rd-party apps suggested 2 months ago on this thread (which I did try out), Xtrafinder is the winner. Kudos to Trankynam!

Well I have discovered that I have to turn this Xtrafinder feature off because when I drag a file or folder in to a finder window full ofe folders, it insists on highlighting one of the folders and therefore dropping what I am dragging iside whichever one is touched. With color labesl off, I can drag into this situation without highlighting one of the folders and therefore keep the problem from happening. I am a bit heart broken because I need this drag ability more so than the color labels. Hopefuly it is a fixable bug that he takes and interest in fixing. So for now it's back to "tags" for me. sigh . . .

Notify the Developers.

http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/support.html

Pete

grdh20, it's not a problem for me. And I'm not sure that the behavior-- hovering a held file over a spring-loaded folder opens the folder??-- wasn't there previously.

It's hard to explain.  In list view if you drag anything from another finder window into the list view that happens to have many folders inside it already, if you release the item you are dragging in there in the space to the right of the folder names (any open area near the date or kind fields) then it drops the item in wiothout placing it in one of the folders that you happen to touch that line for. In other words, the color lable is acting like a folder stretcher so that evn on a line that has empty space next to a non labeled folder is effected as if the folder name was all the way across the page and the drag is effected.

I also saw a report where simply dragging up to selecet a number of folders at onece is effected likley by this same behavior. What I don't remember is that if it was like this in Mountain Lion.

(I have alerted Xtrafinder)  If your workflow doesn't need what I have described, then it may not effect you, but I keep dropping things where they don;t belong because I am used to doing it this way.

By the way: Is there any way ton turn Spell Check on in this forum?  Doesn't seem to work in Firefox in the Apple forum only.