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

StitcherGA wrote:

 

Even though the number is likely small I would bet more people used the colored folders than will ever use the dots, but who knows.

The dots are of no consequence. They likely left them in there just to be backward compatible with the older OS's.

Tags really have nothing to do with visual identification. It is the ability to add multiple keywords exponentially increasing the organizational capability. Labels were merely a binary flag with bling.

It is interesting to see that a simple question like ’can we please have the coloured labels back in Finder’, can end up in a philosophical essay.  It makes reading all these posts worthwhile

Have look, it's not the only one!

https://discussions.apple.com/message/23713087#23713087

DABbio wrote:

 

I sense a market that some developer needs to get developing!

Would you be prepared to provide funding for a startup based on your estimates, or Barneys?

  Ha, good one.

I have neither sufficient funds, entrepreneurial spirit, or time, to do a startup. But I can assure you that if I did, I certainly would only be reading, not writing, to this forum!

DABbio wrote:

 

What I was really hoping for was to stimulate some talented developer to come up with a hack that even a newbie could use that will restore the label functionality without making a smear of the rest of that absolutely perfect OS that we are all going to come to love, whether we like it or not.

 

  Ha, good one.

I have neither sufficient funds, entrepreneurial spirit, or time, to do a startup. But I can assure you that if I did, I certainly would only be reading, not writing, to this forum!

 

Doesn't take much.  Would you contribute $1,000 to a Kickstarter project based on your gusstimate of 80,000 potential users?

DABbio wrote:

 

  Ha, good one.

I have neither sufficient funds, entrepreneurial spirit, or time, to do a startup. But I can assure you that if I did, I certainly would only be reading, not writing, to this forum!

So, that's no then.

Honestly, This move gets a massive facepalm from me. I have been waiting for 10+ years now for Apple to give us more colors for labels (hello? custom ones from the color wheel? ya think?). A $2 box of crayons has more color options than my $2,000 laptop.

So what do they do? They instead decide to take away labels and replace them with useless 'category' tags. Which also apparently have less color options available than a $2 box of crayons. Gosh, thanks Apple.

It's such a colossal blunder I won't be upgrading my system again: it will completely screw my thousands of already-labled files and folders.

Mark Abram wrote:

 

A $2 box of crayons has more color options than my $2,000 laptop.

 

Maybe because a $2,000 laptop is not a toy?

Let me put it in a different way for you. A $2,000 laptop that can play war games in HD 3D full living and dying color ought to be capable of generating a larger palette of colors for non-toy purposes.

Crayons aren't necessarily toys.

Speaking of Crayons, one of the reasons I came to Apple from MS Windows slugs was because I was told that they never crashed, never got viruses (I had my share of the BSoD too many times on my Dells and Acers to want anymore) and because of the richness of the graphics.  I don't play games,(maybe a few Klondike's) but I do a lot of spread sheets, writing, design drawings, and some colored hobby type graphics, all basically hobby,  But I was floored at the paucity and dullness of color when I saw tags talk about disappointment!

Peohguy

Apple needs to put learn spelling or add word in thier Support Communities spell check. and make it work all the time.  Like this complete sentence is completely red lined as I type it.

Mark, The loss of the colored labels for folders & particularly for file names has been a headache & disappointment since I foolishly upgraded to Mavericks last fall.  I want my virtual highlighter returned.

My work system is toast & I've had to make hard choices about how to handle my future Mac life.

Tags surely assist many users; but those of us who have relied on labels, are the casualties of a very capricious decision by Apple designers.

I want to not want the labels so I don't wait for that which will never come.

But I want them.

Peggy, Peggy, Peggy.  Here is one workaround:

http://tinyurl.com/mdd7hfl

Thanks for the laugh!