Q: How to get label colors back on Maverick?

Met The Dog is right there, though. If we all write in and complain to Apple and beg them to do it.... well, I'm not holding my breath that it'll get done, but at least we can confirm we'd been ignored!
What abblougee.smile said aobut "it just works" no longer applying. Sadly - I agree. Nowadays, it's more like "it just works - as long as you want to work the way we tell you to work". Sad... I miss the old days....

Was looking at this old post of yours, Stassi, and I have a question: Once you have Path Finder and/or Forklift open, can you then deal with files as in the old days? That is, the colors show up in your finder view — you don't need to think about it? Or do you need to take special steps to see the colors?

Or let me put it this way — if all you need to do is open Path Finder at the beginning of the day and colors work just like they did in pre-Mavericks days, then yay, that's good, that's acceptable. But if you need to go through some special steps to see colors, that's no real solution.

Hi Deedgee. Either program shows things the old way - no additional tweaking involved. I've noticed that if I have multiple tags on an item (since Mavericks, I've added a couple), the first tag's color is the one that does the entire line color highlight like we were used to.

HERE'S the caveat. I don't want you thinking that once either program is running, that it changes the look of the files in the actual Finder. The views are ONLY within the window that is the program. There are a few Preferences that can make it "seem" like Pathfinder is THE Finder (I only opened Pathfinder for this note), but I haven't used them - I'm trying to get used to the actual Finder.

I'm going to try to attach 2 screenshots here so you can see what I mean:

The key for me is if you can function in the "old" way. If I need to turn on Path Finder when I log on, but from then on it works as a "virtual" Finder for me, then it's good enough. Anything short of that and I'm doubtful. Does that make sense?

I believe it makes sense to me. So far, it hasn't worked as a "virtual Finder" for me. It's a stand-alone program. I haven't experimented with the preferences as above, so I can't answer as to whether that would make it act more like the Finder without the interface (I'm imagining like Parallels in Coherence mode.)

I haven't had the time to try out the other methods - but as for now, I do not have a "Virtual Finder" experience.

Maybe somebody else here has had the chance to experiment with these settings. Perhaps there's also something on Pathfinder's website - I haven't time to check it out..

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I hate these color dots, just as I hate most of what apple does in what I guess is an attempt to improve things. I just want to get some work done, not stop every day to figure out the newest great way to do the same thing. I like to tell people that my work as a designer of mostly print media, could be done, and sometimes still is, on my delightful eMac, still chugging along... Apple, thanks for nothing...except my nano, which is the one true leap forward.

metrostet wrote:

 

I just want to get some work done, not stop every day to figure out the newest great way to do the same thing.

Any reason then why you upgraded to Mavericks?

I can't answer for metrostet, but I'd put off upgrading for a long time. Never even used Mountain Lion. The ONLY reason I upgraded was that newer software was becoming Mountain Lion and above, and I just figured that would continue. Had I known how much of this I'd hate, I personally MIGHT have just installed MT Lion for now and been done with it - but figured that eventually, since I do use new software a lot, I'd have to bite the bullet sometime.

I'd actually saved my old hard drive with Lion on it - could revert at any time - but wanted to give Mavericks a chance. Hadn't realized that by the time I figured out I couldn't stand it, I'd have to go back to the old drive, download hundreds of emails and other items that I'd changed, and spend a ton of time doing that - ONLY to be pushed into the upgrade eventually.

So, instead, I complain to Apple and commiserate on this board, hoping that the technology I'm pushed into (I'm not a luddite - I do need new technologies and new versions of software) will improve.

There's a wonderful little Finder enhancement app that has just added legacy label colors to its newest version.  XtraFinder.  Now it's all I need to have a fully functioning Finder -- and it has a few extra goodies too.

And it's free.  Give it a try.  (I'm not affilliated with the developer, just a (now very) happy user; I'll let you search it out yourselves.)

This is great news if true! Any drawbacks?

There's a wonderful little Finder enhancement app that has just added legacy label colors to its newest version.  XtraFinder.  Now it's all I need to have a fully functioning Finder -- and it has a few extra goodies too.

Fantastic! This is what I have been waiting for! Many thanks to Tran Ky Nam Software for making this happen.

None that I've found and I've been using it for years.  And now it's perfect.

It works! Problem solved! Colors are restored! Many thanks to abbelougee for discovering this. Yay!

I will also go to Tran Ky Nam and donate.

Nice! Good find and thanks for sharing.

Now... ahem... if I can find a solution that allows me to preview video files from the desktop level in a legacy fashion (i.e., be able to watch all sorts of different movie formats, not just a couple like .MP4, H264, ProRes -- without having to painfully "convert" them like Mavericks makes us do), I'll be ready to make the jump.