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

Pontotoc Peg wrote:

 

The issue is being unable to turn off the tag function.

Right-click on each tag in the Finder and choose Delete Tag. If you have a lot, then it will take some time. I couldn't figure out a way to delete multiple.

Once you've deleted them all, the "tag function" will be "turned off."

Pontotoc Peg wrote:

 

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.

And again, no.  Mavericks is not slowed down by reading the "three bits in the Finder Info allotted for the Label color"

And again, if you want to explore what is causing slow performace since you upgraded to Mavericks, start a new thread.

Hi Pontotoc Peg,

I would think everybody here is hoping the coloured labels return!

I shan't repeat again why,but I had to go back to Mountain Lion,and it's such an improvement over the previously mentioned problems I had with Mavericks. And there's that other thing....coloured labels again!

Tony T1 wrote:

 

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

 

Whilst you are cutting out the obusive abusive section, correct the spelling, grammar, and incomprehenible incomprehensible writing style.

 

Peter

 

 

Whilst I'd like to claim literary irony, I freely confess to being hoist on my own petard!

Peter

I agree wholeheartedly with all the complaints. I am a visual person and want to scan quickly to find my files... not search tags. Completely different process.

So here's my lame-o workaround until Apple fixes this (fingers crossed):

I went into Photoshop and created a big orange circle. Then I copied it and went to my projects folder, and clicked on my handful of active project folders individually (the ones that I'd normally color) -- and with each, I did Command-I (Get Info), clicked on the icon at the top of the window, and Pasted the orange circle in. That changed the icons from light blue folders to bright orange dots.

Yes, I'm going to have to delete those orange dots once the folders aren't active projects of mine any more -- however at least it's SOMETHING.

And if a person was so motivated, they could make a variety of colors/shapes... or just download custom icons they like from online. The point being, that in a funky way, this is achieving a workable situation for me.

That actually works better than just making colored folders. I made 256 x 256 pixel multicolored squares and they almost stand out enough to work. You could do circles or fat X's etc.

Thanks for that.

Mike

There is a good solution for colorizing and customizing your folders- actually better than good- when used in conjuncture with the Tags. The program to use costs 3 dollars and is on the app store- and its called Folder Foundry and what it will let you do is make colored folders and beyond that put graphics on those folders. When you use this you get FAR more variety than we all ever got with Earlier versions of the MAC OS. In order to make those folders searchable or aggragatable- you will need to put a TAG on them so you can search for groups of them but.. its a empowered solution you can use right now. you have to know that you can copy the look of any folder - its attributes- by selecting it- then Command i then touching the top corner where the little icon of the folder is and then going to another folder and repeating this with the exaction that when you have selected the folder you do a Command V [paste] instead. The look of the old folder will be moved to the new folder. so it takes time but you find you get great value from this and when you bite the bullet and spend the ten minute so make 10 folders or so - you just duplicate those and use them as quickly accessible templates.

BTW- my mac - a macpro from 2008 v 3,1- has also slowed down after installing Mavericks

Totally agree. Those colored dots are next to useless. Why fix something that wasn't broken? Bring back colored folders!

Thank you, these are welcome suggestions, but I don't think they address the issues of (1) having files as well as folders well identified-- for example, I have a revision priority scheme for drafts of a given file in a folder--, nor (2) getting a swath of color through the entire file/folder label (file name, date, etc.), not just on the file/folder icon. And, there are still way more steps involved in what used to be a simple right-click maneuver to get to the label menu. Perhaps I am not reading the suggestions properly. I remain hopeful that Apple will eventually address my needs.

Here's a workaround (use the old pre-OSX method of coloring a folder):

1. Select the folder you want to color

2. Press Command + i to get info in the folder

3. In the top of the info popup, you have a small icon of the folder. Select copy it

4. Paste into an image processing app, say Photoshop

5. Color the folder whatever color you like. You can even redraw an entirely new icon, whatever you like

6. Select the entire image space after doing what you want

7. Copy it back over the small icon in the info popup

This doesn't color the entire folder and text, just the folder. But it does make it more visable.

Looks like with Maverick you can not highlight a file all the way across any more? Look like theres just a dot at the far right, is their a way to hightlight the entire line again?

Thanks

See here---> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5502306

Count me as another vote for restoring the colored label feature. There are two problems with the dots, both of which are important. They apply to both files and folders.

First, it reduces the amount of space available to hold the folder/file name. Things that displayed fully now lose one or two characters to truncation on the right. The available screen real estate for names is small and precious, sacrificing some of it for such are feature is a big lose for me.

Second, if you background image happens to use one of the color that is the same as the lettering, it becomes difficult to read. Having the tag color apply to the full text means the filename is visible against all backgrounds.

There are two kinds of mechanics: shadow board and memory. Shadow board mechanics put up hooked boards on their garage walls with outlines of the tools where they are supposed to go. And they keep an orderly system. Memory mechanics lay their tools whereever they last used them, creating a chaotic mess, but somehow, they are able to rummage about and find the tool when they need it (although some argue they spend more time looking for tools than actually getting work done).

I'm a shadow board mechanic. I organize my files and folders carefully, labelling everything within orderly hierarchies. Apple, however, seems to think that every computer user out there is a memory mechanic. Keep everything in the cloud in one big mess.

Being able to color folders was a great boon for the shadow mechanic, because it allowed us to organize folders by color coding, greatly increasing our lookup speed when searching for a file. Shadow mechnics rarely use Spotlight. Spotlight is practically useless anyway.

Apple's philosophy of detail and quality is clearly going down the drain.