Ability to color folders in Finder GONE in Mavericks

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Colored dots are cool but solid color bars that span the full column widths are far more effective for me in identifying my folders. Apple should've at least included and option to keep this rather than completely remove it and change my workflow.

Colored dots / Tags = UX/UI disaster

Additionally, we should be able to label/tag/color events in the calendar, not have to create a separate calendar for every category in order to get annother color (feedback already sent).

It seems odd that Apple would go backwards in this "upgrade."

Yes, count me as another person completely disgusted by the loss of the folder labeling. This is a major, major way so many of us have maintained clarity in a coplicated file management system, and for no **** good reason, the Apple gods just decided to blow it the f*** away.

Miserable.

Hey, at least give us a choice in Preferences! Let us have this if we want it! Instead of ridiculously obscure, difficult to see DOTS.

Ah, so I am not the only disappointed customer. Just got a new mac with Mavericks installed and alas, my colored folders and icons... gone, gone, gone! Those "tags" dots are impossible to see, so they really do me no good.

I can't understand how a company who entered the market serving the graphic arts industry -- and who still has a major investment in customers who use the equipment (macs) to create visual/arts products -- would choose to eliminate this highly used visual tool...

Apple, you baffle me! I want my colored folders back... I don't want to re-color a zillion folders or replace icons every time I change systems.

Boooooo on tags! 😟 How frustrating! 😕

I completely agree that the loss of coloured bars is unnecessary and makes life difficult now. I used my Finder Colour Structure for over 7 years now, and I have 200,000 files on my Mac. The Tag idea is great, but obviously something very different. The coloured bar helps me to find the one folder or file in each subfolder that is the most important (the one I usually use every day). I used red for many different topics, so it wouldn't solve that problem. If I would use tags, however, and they are limited to 6 or 7 colours, then it doesn't help as well, if you work on more than 20 projects etc....I will mail to Apple.

Could ANYONE think that those tiny dots in the finder called "tags" way over to the right could have any functionality? I mean even at an experimental stage there so obvioulsly dissasociated from the item they tag. Completly worthless. Did anybody try using this? Please bring back the COLOR BARS!!!

Gregory Gavin wrote:

Please bring back the COLOR BARS!!!

Gregory ~ Ask Apple to bring them back via this form:

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

Gregory Gavin wrote:

Could ANYONE think that those tiny dots in the finder called "tags" way over to the right could have any functionality?

No, they don't except as an indication that it has been tagged. Visual feedback is not the purpose of Tags. The purpose of Tags is to create multiple keywords to use to search for files.

It sounds like, rather than remove the entire Tags feature, what we really want is for the colored Tags Dots to be easier to see.

I left feedback suggesting that the Tag Icon (the colored dots) have their own Column (in List view) so that one could place it before the FileName if desired, and also stretch the column to make the Dots wider and thus easier to see.

That would possibly return the rapid color-identification capabilities we loved, while keeping the nicely customizable/searchable feature of Tags.

Dear customers,

here is Apple Support and wie will answer you now;

Thanks a lot for your suggestions and all the great ideas but we will not change it back.

We wish you a nice day,

think different,

Apple Support, Ca.

I have been using Path Finder. You can color files and folders just like the old finder, but it does more. And no, I am not in any way affiliated with them.

http://cocoatechblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/path-finder-6-4-released-optimized -for-os-x-10-9-mavericks/

Works great for the most part. The only problem with it is that it's not cheap and if you are browsing for a file from within an application, like InDesign, you still get the lousy little dots of Apple's finder.

Still, it's the closest you'll probably get to what we had before.

Oh, my. I have the same complaint...that they removed the color! I used it to highlight certain files in a folder for quick reference. I agree the dot is not good enough.

In system preferences, I tried to find a way to turn it back on, but couldn't find it.

I will add my feedback to Apple.

Hey, as an aside, thank goodness they added ibooks to Maverick!

I've sent feedback as I also miss the ability to color-code the folders and files I use all the time. A workaround that has helped me: add a tilde (~) before the filename of those files/folders I need to find quickly, and they show up at the top of the list. If there are many files/folders with leading tildes, they show up alphabetically. I'm going to look into Path Finder and Folder Magic as well. Thanks to everyone for affirming I'm not alone in missing the color-coding ability like crazy and for the good suggestions as *temporary* fixes until Apple returns the functionality. I opt for color coding to be a separate function and give us tags as well.

Late to the game to upgrade because I am always suspect of upgrades. Just installed yesterday, 4.09.14. Wow, NO! Oh No!... had no idea about the folder /file color feature going away. How hard can it be to keep an effective, efficient, solid simple feature? The dot is worthless. Unless you like tiny colored dots to the far right of your folder.

Was the Dot patented or licensed by Apple?$ You can't even move the dot before the folder. It gets "Lost in Space" to the far right. Then you need to adjust window to scrunch it closer. I look right to the color dot, look left to read file name, Look right to colored dot look left for file name, look right to colored dot look left for file name. Oh there it is.. Too many clicks, too many steps, too much time staring at my screen to decifer what color and where. Might as well put colored paper post it notes on my screen. Wait, I think I can use my mom's old Recipe 3x5 box holder for my colored post its.

I have years of folders and files that are now blank except for a tiny dot.

**Seems we can only wish that the original folder/file color feature comes back with Steve Jobs and his brilliant designs 😉