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

Hi Templeofdoom,

I know how you feel. After installing Mavericks on day of release,I encountered many problems,such as Finder crashes,Dock disappearing and failed restarts,which I've previously mentioned on numerous occasions in this thread. However,had the Mavericks system worked properly,I still would have returned to Mountain Lion,which I actually did two weeks after installing Mavericks. I wanted and I needed the colour labels and the ability to double click on a folder for it to open in a new Finder window.I also hated,and I mean HATE the way Spotlight and Finder in Mavericks now use tagging/metadata. I have always disliked iTunes for doing the same,hence why I don't use it as a player.

The pathetic dots in Mavericks are just that - pathetic. Some users may like them,but I don't. I can hardly see the darn things.

Will Apple reinstate colour labels and the Finder/folder/double click,as an option? Time will tell. But look at the system problems you and I encountered with Mavericks,and Apple has still not addressed these. So,even if I liked the dots,I would still be using an unstable operating system. If Apple has so far failed to address system problems,what is the chance of them even bothering with labels etc?

I am glad I am using Mountain Lion again,but it shouldn't have to be this way,but thanks to Apple,it is.

I feel the exact same as everyone who feels really frustrated with this change. The visual feedback that the highlighted folders offered was much more useful than these tiny little dots.

Until there is a fix or an app offers a solution I would suggest going this route:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/customize-mac-folder-icon/

Change the icons of the folders. There is no need to spend $3-5 on an app when it is super easy to do it yourself. I made a folder of a selection of simple circular icons (which I would gladly share) and have been RE-ORGANIZING everything because the now gone function was really really helpful.

cfe wrote:

 

Pete:

 

I had no idea that you have made yourself Moderator of this Support Function.  Every other email I get is from you

You are confused, no poster here can send emails to another poster unless the email address is included in the user profile, and yours is not. So Pete can not know it. Kinda hard to send an email without knowing the address.

Very true. But if Apple doesn't read their own discussion boards in order to get a feel as to how people are reacting to Mavericks, what would be their reason to look to Ars for feedback?

If it actually were a viable source that we should have been posting to, why didn't anyone point that out like they do for Apple Feedback?

Apple has a user feedback system, that is where they get information from their users from.

Here is a link

Doug-H1955 wrote:

 

Very true. But if Apple doesn't read their own discussion boards in order to get a feel as to how people are reacting to Mavericks, what would be their reason to look to Ars for feedback?

Apple has no reason to look to Ars for feedback.  Why would you think they did?

Very articulate response.

  I have also posted a repy in Apple's feedback area.

I find Apple Maverick's removal of the folder coloring feature an enourmous problem.- which wiped out years worth of work on my part. Dots off to the right '3/16th of an inch in diameter- are not a better design choice.

for years I have used color whichi put on folders to keep track - visually quickly identify folders and their locations. It for me is what helped make a MAC a mac.

Color  has been a part of how i  manage my work flows. When apple removal of this simple but effective customizable feature it has wiped away millions of hours of individuals customization and personal expression and time put into their their personal computers.

This app. is a partial solution. Its not perfect and its not nearly as quick as the original folder color labeling system

BUT  Factory FOLDERS  IS HERE NOW AND allows us to make a color folder which we can copy etc. So for me its a stand in until apple fixed this clearly horrible design choice.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/folders-factory/id442153412

I just found out that my files are no longer colored, only have tiny dots by them.

Frustrating and discouraging because I loved the colored files and used them ALL the time.

Like several others, I used colors for functionality and now nothing.

Please, Apple, give us back the colored folders. Please!

StitcherGA wrote:

 

Please, Apple, give us back the colored folders. Please!

We're all just users like yourself here. Apple will carefully read your feedback here:

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

And Apple calls the feature under discussion "color labels" (Source). ...To ensure clarity, it's probably a good idea to use that same terminology in your feedback to Apple.

Hi Wizard, I updated my Aperture (post-Mavericks update) and the colored labels were still present. This gives me hope that Apple will reinstate the color label option.  Of course, when I export a JPEG from Aperture with its colored label, to a desktop folder, the label disappears and becomes a dot.  (Tag).

I considered going back to ML, but decided to stick it out with Mavericks--hoping that our labels will return.  I continue to send feedback to Apple. 

My Mac is so slow now.  And I hear something running.  Is it metadata (?) running in the background trying to sort my color-labeled files into tag-data?

I Googled this issue without luck.  Prior to Mavericks, my Mac was running normal.

Either Apple will bring back Labels or they won't.  That they forgot to disable it from Aperture means nothing.

Also, one feedback to Apple is all that is needed,  Duplicates are ignored.

"Hope springs eternal..." – Alexander Pope

Pontotoc Peg wrote:

 

My Mac is so slow now.  And I hear something running.  Is it metadata (?) running in the background trying to sort my color-labeled files into tag-data?

No, it is not the cause of your Mac running slow.  Metadate does not run in the background, it is data that is read by the OS when you access the file (i.e. view on Finder)  You should not hear something running other than the fan, when and if it is running)   To learn more, see: Tags implementation

If you want to investigate the cause of your Mac running slow, please start a new thread.

The issue is being unable to turn off the tag function. And wondering if my Mac is being bogged down by my thousands of color-labeled files.  I don't use smart folders and have profited by the visual cue of color labels.  But now my Mac is slogging along since Mavericks.

I don't have any other explanation other than my Mac is searching for data--and I now must wait to save a file while my Mac figures out I don't have my folders in "the cloud".

It's a problem. 

We have to deal with what is, but I expect smooth performance, at the minimum.

Thanks, maybe I don't express it well. But my Mac is now slow and seems to me that the tag data is slowing it up.  Prior to Mavericks, my Mac wasin good shape.

I try to keep my Mac close to "factory" and have few non-Apple programs.  It's disturbing that Apple wants to determine how a user should work. 

Pontotoc Peg wrote:

 

The issue is being unable to turn off the tag function. And wondering if my Mac is being bogged down by my thousands of color-labeled files.

Again, no. 

I don't have any other explanation other than my Mac is searching for data

As I said, if you want to explore what is causing slow performace since you upgraded to Mavericks, start a new thread -- this one is not the place to get an answer.