Ability to color folders in Finder GONE in Mavericks

Feedback sent.

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

I need to be able to see the color in list view and I need the color on the WORDS!... I found this app and it does allow me to add color to folders which is like a 60% regain of what I need:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/folder-magic/id647731944?mt=12

FOLDER MAGIC

PS--I did leave feedback asking for some sort of labels opion back

I'm starting to lose track of all the disgruntled "bring labels back" threads here, but it appears I did not yet post this solution here yet. Just in case anyone stumbles accross this thread who hasn't heard of this workaround yet:

Cocoatech's Pathfinder ($40) brings back labels. BinaryAge (makers of TotalFinder, $18) are also considering bringing it back, or so I was told by their support.

I would suggest, if you need labels back NOW, try the PathFinder 30 day trial and tell BinaryAge that you are interested in the feature. If they don't implement it, you can always buy PathFinder when your time is up, but if they do, you can get TotalFinder which is cheaper. Unless, that is you fall in love with the other features of PathFinder, or someone comes out with a free patch beforehand. I've heard PathFinder also fixed a Mavericks gripe about previewing movie files, but it's not an issue I'm familiar with. TotalFinder also gives the option of bringing back color to the sidebar icons, which I find pretty appealing.

and of course.. feedback.. send feedback!
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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."

Feedback sent too.

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! 😕

Totally agree with you! And it's not even funny anymore how they ignore their customers … I mean hey, this was meant to be a Support Forum over here once, not a page for Frustration Chronicles …

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.

Same here - just upgraded my mac and stupid dots where I once had nice color bars on folders.

Feedback sent, but grrrrr.

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.