Finder Tags and Colors Changed (Deleted) by El Capitan

No the problems still persist. I was hoping this would solve the issue. Unless you "Arrange By: Tag" and "Sort By: Tag" my preferences aren't taking. In another preference selection "Arrange By: None" and "Sort By: Tag" the tags are organized differently like I've mentioned before. So numbering my tags is not working entirely, but only if you use "Arrange By: Tag" and "Sort By: Tag" It may be due to a clash of "label" and "tag" from my previous OS environment. I'm probably missing something, but so far it seems it may be due to this clash of decades old labelling/tagging. 😟

I had the same problem but just found that when you go to "all tags" your previous configuration appears again. Then you just need to 1/assign the right color to the previously named tags, 2/ put them back to the side bar, and 3/ erase the new color name tags

I hope that helps!

Hi and thanks for replying. I still have the same problem though I see what you are saying. I was able to find all those old tags. I never made tags named more than "Red" "Orange" "Yellow" etc. I wanted to keep things simple so I was able to edit those into 1 (for Red) 2 (for Orange) 3 (for Yellow) etc.

If you open them up under view options "Arrange by: Tags and Sort by: Name" yes they are all organized according to the numbers/alphabetical (1 (for Red) 2 (for Orange) 3 (for Yellow) etc.), but if in Finder you open up a folder in "Icon" mode and you change the view options to "Arrange by: None and Sort by: Tags" typically you should see them arrange in the same sort of order with "1 = Red" being first, but instead 3 = Yellow always comes out first under ICON VIEW.

This is weird because in my older computer it would come out the order I mentioned in my previous posts. RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN...etc. Like the Rainbow...but instead in El Capitan under ICON VIEW it comes out YELLOW, RED, ORANGE, PURPLE, GREEN. GREY, BLUE...very weird.

Every other VIEW Option works out like it should, but I can't get the right tag order in ICON View for some reason.

😟

I just upgraded to El Capitan this week and have discovered that my tags had apparently disappeared. I did find them listed and attached to the files/folders I had assigned them to when I looked at "Tags," but the colors were gone and the tags themselves were not visible on the folders or files. I finally discovered that if I went to Finder/Preferences/Tags I could reassign the colors to the tags and they reappeared with Folders and Files. Hope this helps with some of the problems.

Just regarding color tags, Ive noticed you can select as many files as you want and add a color tag to them, but if you want to remove colored tags you can only do it 10 files at a time. I found this out the hard way as i just separated hundreds of files into colored groups temporarily, but then i went to then undo those tags i was restricted to 10 at a time (if you select 11 or more it shows all the colors as active when you right click, not just the one that has been assisgnd to the files). Why on earth they would do this i have no idea.