I want the colored labels back so that the folder or file is colored, and in list view the whole line is colored.
I never changed the label names but I used the colors all the time. I never got why anyone would want to lock down the meaning of a colored label. There was no color picker offered, so there are only eight colors (including no color) and there are zillions of meanings one might assign to a particular file or folder. So obviously, context matters if you want to tag in any but the most generalized way.
Before Mavericks, the label colors, often only transiently assigned, implied different things to me in the context of their (also maybe transient) location. It was completely possible for a file to be one color and several aliases, located elsewhere, to be some other colors. Mostly it was about making the entity VISIBLE quickly within its then current context. Now that's all gone. Those colored dots are USELESS. I used label colors as attention getters. They don't work now.
The idea of tags on files and folders is all well and good, but for those who want to be able to turn a file or folder a COLOR, that should be an option, in preferences. You can still have your multiple tags as colors if you like that idea. But is it so hard for Apple to pop up the assigned tags and say "pick the icon's primary color" if someone has three colored tags on the file and yet in preferences says he wants to color the icon? Separate these ideas of ENTITY TAGS and ENTITY COLOR already, they don't belong together!
I don't know what to do now about finding my files and folders quickly. Messing with the Finder using third party stuff reminds me a little too much of pre OS X operating systems. Stuff used to break. Stuff could break now and I wouldn't know if it's the third-party stuff or the OS. Plus maybe I'd have to let unsigned application in at least for installation. I'm not saying Mavericks is a bowl of jelly but it's still a relatively new OS and surely has some unexplored corners out here in the ever-shifting real terrain
But boy do I miss what I had: being able to open a folder and see a bright orange line across the list. Yeah, baby, that's my current phone bill! The green file in a sea of shopping lists, the one for my groceries! The purple folder of gear I own and have to keep track of. Everything takes longer to locate when I'm opening files in browse mode. I'm hopping mad. When I calm down I will make a feedback to Apple.
I never changed the label names but I used the colors all the time. I never got why anyone would want to lock down the meaning of a colored label. There was no color picker offered, so there are only eight colors (including no color) and there are zillions of meanings one might assign to a particular file or folder. So obviously, context matters if you want to tag in any but the most generalized way.
Before Mavericks, the label colors, often only transiently assigned, implied different things to me in the context of their (also maybe transient) location. It was completely possible for a file to be one color and several aliases, located elsewhere, to be some other colors. Mostly it was about making the entity VISIBLE quickly within its then current context. Now that's all gone. Those colored dots are USELESS. I used label colors as attention getters. They don't work now.
The idea of tags on files and folders is all well and good, but for those who want to be able to turn a file or folder a COLOR, that should be an option, in preferences. You can still have your multiple tags as colors if you like that idea. But is it so hard for Apple to pop up the assigned tags and say "pick the icon's primary color" if someone has three colored tags on the file and yet in preferences says he wants to color the icon? Separate these ideas of ENTITY TAGS and ENTITY COLOR already, they don't belong together!
I don't know what to do now about finding my files and folders quickly. Messing with the Finder using third party stuff reminds me a little too much of pre OS X operating systems. Stuff used to break. Stuff could break now and I wouldn't know if it's the third-party stuff or the OS. Plus maybe I'd have to let unsigned application in at least for installation. I'm not saying Mavericks is a bowl of jelly but it's still a relatively new OS and surely has some unexplored corners out here in the ever-shifting real terrain
But boy do I miss what I had: being able to open a folder and see a bright orange line across the list. Yeah, baby, that's my current phone bill! The green file in a sea of shopping lists, the one for my groceries! The purple folder of gear I own and have to keep track of. Everything takes longer to locate when I'm opening files in browse mode. I'm hopping mad. When I calm down I will make a feedback to Apple.
