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

I too find the dots too hard subtle to discern easily at a glance. Unfortunately, with what I believe Apple intends Tags be used I don't see them changing it back. Labels were used to label a folder with a single designation and with Tags they want multiple designations for that same folders.

I have resorted to turning on the labels while in list view, it's not what I had previously but it helps me identify my folders using my old "Label" system.

The tags dot is stupid. Tagging is fine if the color was like labels. Labels makes the mac easier to navigate files and folder and better that Windows. Apple team this is really bad...........................

tony. this is nice suggestion but it is /not/ helpful for me. i have my WHOLE desktop organized to help me visually distinguish between types of items and dots DO NOT help. i also have discrete folders/files within foldes colored to CALL THEM OUT so i know these individually are important. this is a VISUAL organization that tags/dots are not worthwhile using functionally speaking....

i spent /years/ on a PC missing this feature and was lost as a consequence. it was the single thing i was most happy about (and it lowered my blood pressure being back on mac and having them again)! taking them away is a step WAY too far in with this OS.

big time bummer.

even Joyful One is bummed about this!

; (

bring back our color and make us joyful again...

I know there wont be any helpful solution or update from Apple in short time so i have no choice except Downgrading to Mountain Lion because i'm not really able to work without labels when i have to work with hundreds folder a day

I am seeking to find a proper method to downgrade without erasing data

Such a disappointing issue with Apple in this case

jeez. i'm in design. colored folders have been my favorite and most productive mac feature since like the 1990's...

Yeah, I also miss colored labels.  They easily can so-exist with Tags, don't know why Apple didn't keep them.

Hey all,

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

I hope they get the get a huge response and let us have our coloured folders back. It's a shame, they mustn't know how useful they are?! To me it was one of the things I loved about finder. Zipping through huge folder structures was an easy task... Not anymore.

I also don't see the tags as being that handy really. With folder colours i had heaps of blue coloured folders for example but I'd never necessarily want to view them all at once. Also I can't see myself putting a tag on every file I save. Just seems a shame to loose that functionality.

Pete.

If Apple had its way,everything on our Macs would be grey. What is this fixation of Apple to have everything boring,dull and grey? If it wasn't for the SideEffects plugin,the Finder sidebar icons would be grey. I remember how we able to colourise the interface much more in OS 8.

Anyway,keep up the complaints to Apple. We want our colour labels back.We pay enough for these machines,so we should be listened to. If I wanted crap,I'd have bought a Windows PC.

I'm going to another area of the forum now,to complain about the taking away of double clicking windows to open a new window.

Please Apple, give us back the old labels on next updates, or at least coloured folders. One idea: if I have just one tag the folder coud have that color, otherwise no color. I really need them to organize my work.

I'm very disappointed with the new OS. To the Pro community, really doesn't bring nothing new, I regret having upgraded.

Thank You

Tell Apple

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

Cheers

Pete

yeah. i realized a couple of things upon sleeping on this:

1. this loss has me almost as bummed out as i am about losing lou reed.

2. i understand jony's desire to minimalize the interface and i also understand the /power/ of colored tags - but this does not replace the need for organizing VISUALLY. i have all sorts of prompt in the physical world to keep my business and creative life organized and having different COLORS for things is really critical to this. in my DIGITAL WORLD this is even move critical since i cannot simply leave a binder next to the door so i have it on the way out and i cannot resize a folder or a file to make it have more significance. so i rely on COLORS. i have done this since buying the first mac laptop back in my college days and when i went to PC for about 8 years it was the single biggest thing that i missed and was actually one of the prime reasons i came back - because i wanted to have my life ORGANIZED on the mac and i knew that the colored folders was both a tool for this and an indication that mac "got it". taking them away is just a step too far but i understand the need to try it and get it "stood up". that said, in stepping back and looking at this i am really hoping they will give this mission critical functionality back to me.

3. i /can/ see the need to minimalize the interface and i DO think that the colors on the tags are too bold and a tad garish for my aesthetic. it would be really fantastic to mute these a little bit or to even give the user a CHOICE in selecting the colors which seems like it wouldn't be too hard from a programming standpoint.

thanks for the listen and i've already posted feedback.

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