Just got a new iMac running El Capitan. I can not change the background colors in folders from white to my choice. "View options" does not allow me to change the color, even though it's sitting there in the little box.
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
Try changing the view option to : Arrange by: None
Rysz wrote:
Where exactly do you see that option?
View Options (cmd-j). As balsa2 points out, you cannot have an arrangement set. It will only show the options to change the colors if it has no Arrangement.
Yes, I figured that out after I posted the question and because it was the end of my day, I neglected to post my finding.
I should have mentioned I was in "icon view" and trying to "arrange by kind" when the OS did "arrange by kind" but then stripped the background color. Thus, if one wants icons arranged "by kind", one gets the glaring white background color and can not change it. Using "none" did arrange the icons alphabetically (or at least they ended up that way). I use icon view because it's easier to see my files the way I want to see them.
I prefer the old way - until I got this new Mac, I was still running Snow Leopard - and I still do on my 8 year old iMac - on which I can still use Adobe's CS4 suite.
Thanks to all for their replies.
No Dial, you are mistaken. Not everyone uses List or Column view. 😊
Set Arrange By to none.
You can't change the Folder background color.
Where exactly do you see that option? It's not built into El Capitan, so it might be from some third-party utility, which is no longer compatible with El Capitan.
dialabrain wrote:
No Dial, you are mistaken. Not everyone uses List or Column view. 😊
Yep, it's not available there, either. Forgot those other caveats.
Well I didn't know you could change it in any view. I learned something. 😎
Thanks. Would have never discovered this on my own.
FWIW, if you choose "Sort by: Kind" and "Arrange by: None" in the Finder view options, it will maintain the background color.
can not change background color in folders
