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Do you use color labels?

I have a folder full of invoices... I labelled them red if they hadn't been paid yet, green if they had.

That's the only use I've found for labels so far.
 
MacNeXT said:
They came in handy when I downloaded all of the Family Guy episodes from limewire. I color the ones I'd seen. Nothing besides that, but it's a nice feature.
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Hey, I take offense to that! ;) I admit I've done my share of downloading as well, but Family Guy is one of those series that I am actually willing to pay for - and I did so, when I bought the entire collection on DVD! Download whatever you like, but if something is worth paying for, you should do the right thing!

Anyway, just thought I'd comment on this, being a big Family Guy fan (in case you couldn't tell from my avatar... ;)) I can't wait until the new episodes come out next year! :cool:
 
As for coloring folders, I do use the feature, but only in a limited capacity. In main folders where I have a ton of subfolders (especially in my Documents folder) I'll color code subfolders for easy reference, but that's about it. I actually make more use of custom icons for folders to distinguish them than I do color coding...
 
Purple - Music
Blue - Video

and some others....but I can't remember them right off hand. My question is, does anybody know of a way that you can set it up to automatically tag files with, say a .mpg, .mpeg, .avi, .whatever to be set as video and then set mp3's and whatnot to music so that I don't have to find these files and tag them. Alot of times I have alot of garbage thrown in a folder and on a 12" screen, it really helps to have a little color mixed in!
 
How much of a girl am I? :)

I use labels on my desktop files to make them coordinate with my desktop picture. Kinda goofy, huh?

Seriously, though, I just over-organize with folders so labels aren't necessary. On the other hand, I'd *kill* for labels in Mail, a la Entourage. Now that'd be useful.
 
^ yep cleo quite girly. :p

actually i might try that some time, but i'm only going to use they grey's and dark colors. :D

yeah i use labels. mostly for stuff that i've got to back, i use labels to seperate what is safe to delete, usually no label means i've got to back it up, depending on which folder it is.

i'll also use labels for finding a single folder amongst a mass of hundreds of folders. of course i could start typing the name on the keyboard but the labels do help.

in OS 9... i never used OS 9!! :eek:

well, i did a couple of times, but i'm a Mac n00b (well, not anymore i guess ;)), i booted OS 9 a few times, i didn't even know about labels. :eek: :p
 
I do music stuff and have masses and masses of samples, preset patches etc.. on a seperate drive.

I view it in list mode and so by colour coding I can instantly nip into certain folders immediately as it will colour code everything in its column, name, size, date modified etc..

I was actually pleased they bought it back from os9.. along with the IAC buss from OMS added to core MIDI.. :heart:
 
I use labels in the folders that I use most frequently. I use column view exclusively, and having certain folders highlighted in color makes it even easier to pick through the list.
 
I use labels to mark what's done and what's not done for complex projects - say, converting a bunch of files. Otherwise, they don't get much use on Mac OS X. I used them all the time on Mac OS 9 and earlier.
 
I only use one, and that is to make the 'Games' folder in my App folder stand out from all the other stuff. Is this a normal way to have a games folder?
 
wowser said:
I only use one, and that is to make the 'Games' folder in my App folder stand out from all the other stuff. Is this a normal way to have a games folder?
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I'd think that assigning a custom icon to the Games folder would be the more common way to make it stand out. That doesn't mean that there aren't any who just give it a label, or do both (assign a custom icon AND a label - works MUCH better in Mac OS X than in Mac OS 9).
 
MacNeXT said:
They came in handy when I downloaded all of the Family Guy episodes from limewire. I color the ones I'd seen. Nothing besides that, but it's a nice feature.
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I do the exact same thing (different shows, however). I should have filed for patent.
 
~Shard~ said:
Hey, I take offense to that! ;) I admit I've done my share of downloading as well, but Family Guy is one of those series that I am actually willing to pay for - and I did so, when I bought the entire collection on DVD! Download whatever you like, but if something is worth paying for, you should do the right thing!

Anyway, just thought I'd comment on this, being a big Family Guy fan (in case you couldn't tell from my avatar... ;)) I can't wait until the new episodes come out next year! :cool:
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You're absolutely right. That's why I also buy DVD's of such things like The Office (which is f*kin brilliant!) and The Soprano's. But unfortunately, Family Guy has had only one season of broadcasting a few years ago and therefore it isn't really well known here in holland, and you can't buy the dvd's anywhere.

Regarding colored labels: I've just found another use for it. I have to catch up with some school assignments which I was lacking from two years ago. I created folders for each subject, and subfolders for each assignment. In these folders I place the documents I need to carry out the work.

Thing's that have to be done are red, thing's i've finished are green. When I go to my parent's house for the weekend, I zip the folder, upload it with bluetooth to my sony ericsson K700i and restore it on the powerbook which I keep at my parent's house. The colored labels are conserved in the process!

It makes the dull work just a little bit nicer :)
 
MacNeXT said:
You're absolutely right. That's why I also buy DVD's of such things like The Office (which is f*kin brilliant!) and The Soprano's. But unfortunately, Family Guy has had only one season of broadcasting a few years ago and therefore it isn't really well known here in holland, and you can't buy the dvd's anywhere.

Regarding colored labels: I've just found another use for it. I have to catch up with some school assignments which I was lacking from two years ago. I created folders for each subject, and subfolders for each assignment. In these folders I place the documents I need to carry out the work.

Thing's that have to be done are red, thing's i've finished are green. When I go to my parent's house for the weekend, I zip the folder, upload it with bluetooth to my sony ericsson K700i and restore it on the powerbook which I keep at my parent's house. The colored labels are conserved in the process!

It makes the dull work just a little bit nicer :)
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You're using Panther's built-in zip utility to zip the folder, right? Other zip utilities won't preserve resource forks and other Mac-specific things like labels.
 
I use them all the time blue=system grey=games red=high use app such as mac stumbler purple=school and green=cd image/backup file.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
You're using Panther's built-in zip utility to zip the folder, right? Other zip utilities won't preserve resource forks and other Mac-specific things like labels.
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That's right.
 
I used them at work under OS9 to distinguish active, temporary or junk files. The "junk" label was used to mark files/folders not requiring backup by Retrospect. You could use labels as part of search critera. Very powerful.

Yes, we still use labels under OSX for the same reasons, however the current visual implementation is enough to make you vomit. Colouring the entire line instead of the folder is way too much, plus when you select a folder or file the highlighting of that item overrides the label colour, reducing it to a dot at the left. I love showing off Apple's superior/consistent visual language to poor Windows users, but I make sure I never let them see this embarassing implementation.

There is a haxie out there to induce the OS9 appearance, but I prefer to keep the system clean, especially at work. Plus I'm not sure how reliable it would be in a server (Dual xServe with raid card... go xServe, go xServe!) environment.
 
I have one label set for an external hard drive, but nothing else. But then again, i dont have any "workflows" or on-going projects like some people.
 
i only use one (1) label, but i like to costumize icons for my important folders a lot... and that's really nice and very practical i think.

And people tend to be very impressed when they notice them in my dock ;)
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
I'd think that assigning a custom icon to the Games folder would be the more common way to make it stand out. That doesn't mean that there aren't any who just give it a label, or do both (assign a custom icon AND a label - works MUCH better in Mac OS X than in Mac OS 9).
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Thanks - i totally overlooked that, but i'll give it a try.
 
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