Something weird..it is Mac OS X or my Mac Pro?

[Tangerine]

I think you've found part of the bug, if not the bug. See, what's odd about this is that for me it's related to "This Window Only" being set. Secondly, it will flip back and forth between two colors -- usually the two reversed colors -- ONLY when the View Options inspector window is shown. Otherwise it stays at one or the other.

And when I manually set "This Window Only"'s color, it usually reverts to some other color. It seems that if I manually set the window's color and keep the "This Window Only" it jumps to some arbitrary color, but if I haven't set a color in there, and it's pulling from the iMac, it reverses the R and G of what it's supposed to be.

Here's a video demonstrating this (I'd recommend an opt-click and "Download Linked File" as it is a 1280x800 res movie). The windows jump around rather quickly and the video is highly compressed as I wanted to keep file sizes down. Mainly all that you should see here is that when the inspector window is open, the colors flip. When the inspector window isn't open, it maintains the previous color. When a color isn't set in "This Windows Only" (pulling from the network share .ds_store) it flips the R and G. When a color is manually set, then, it flips between two arbitrary colors. (I just noticed that the crayon picker was on my secondary display in this video, but this is set near the end of the video).

I am inclined to believe you oughta write up a bug report and file it to https://bugreport.apple.com

Holy crap! That’s the exact same thing happen on my Mac Pro. The funny thing is, it only happen if you set it to "This Windows Only" It work normal with "All Windows" setting. And if you have the "View Option" window open, while closing the folder it switch the color back and fourth. It switches to the wrong color, then back to the right color again. Opening it without the View Option window open will result in the wrong color and doesn't switch back to the right color.

That's a great video btw, maybe you should send it to Apple to have them fix the bugs.

 

[Eric5h5]

I am inclined to believe you oughta write up a bug report and file it to https://bugreport.apple.com

You seem to be in a better position to do that...no Intel Macs here. Strange that something so easily reproducible would have made it into release though. I guess not that many people use window colors?

--Eric

 

[iDavidLeeRoth]

It works for me....


Thank you very much for informing me about this feature.... I'm brand new to OS X!

 

[Tangerine]

It works for me....


Thank you very much for informing me about this feature.... I'm brand new to OS X!

My Eyes!

 

[Max Payne]

My Eyes!

Thank god he didn't choose yellow

 

[IJ Reilly]

Also, single window screen shot:

cmd-shift-4-space

 

[Eric5h5]

My Eyes!

Man, why doesn't that bug kick in when you really need it?

--Eric

 

[Lixivial]

You seem to be in a better position to do that...no Intel Macs here. Strange that something so easily reproducible would have made it into release though. I guess not that many people use window colors?

I didn't wish to take credit from you, as it was your hypothesis (and I truly believe it's part of, if not the bug) that found the root cause of this. And it could well be that Apple is already aware of this issue and are waiting until Leopard's Finder to patch it; doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but I can see it. There are a few UI related bugs I've submitted that are still "Open"

Thank you very much for informing me about this feature.... I'm brand new to OS X!

What a curious picture to take. Was that Transmit SN legitimately acquired? Does MR honor the 5th amendment?

 

[Tangerine]

What a curious picture to take. Was that Transmit SN legitimately acquired? Does MR honor the 5th amendment?

Haha, I just notice that too now. Bittorrent?

And Lixivial, did you submit this bug? But yeah, hope you're right that when Leapard come it be a Rock Solid OS!

 

[iDavidLeeRoth]

Haha, I just notice that too now. Bittorrent?

And Lixivial, did you submit this bug? But yeah, hope you're right that when Leapard come it be a Rock Solid OS!

Usenet.


I just used green to show that it works. I set it back to white immediately.

 

[Tangerine]

Usenet.


I just used green to show that it works. I set it back to white immediately.

Your must not be an Intel Version of the Mac then? But light green work fine on mine too. Some colors work and some don't. It's weired like that.

 

[Lixivial]

And Lixivial, did you submit this bug?

Yes, I backed up my Extras.rsrc and Extras2.rsrc and reset them to the default (so that I could rule out my UI modifications as being the problem), and took an uncompressed, slowed down video to submit to Apple.

It also took a while to figure out just how to describe the issue in a way that was reproducible. I guess we'll see what happens, but I don't hold any hopes for it being fixed in Tiger.

 

[iDavidLeeRoth]

Your must not be an Intel Version of the Mac then? But light green work fine on mine too. Some colors work and some don't. It's weired like that.

Yeah, I have a 24 inch Intel.

 

[ladeer]

This happens to me too.

I found this thread after I googled "mac folder background color change" because I, too, experienced this problem (and was very scared by it, since I just bought the FIRST apple computer of my life last night, which was a MacBook 2.0Ghz).

Thanks guys for letting me know that I am not the only one!

(Intel C2D)

 

[joekix]

tried it and it worked fine on my mbp c2d. also thanks because i never knew about this feature.

 

[djstarrock]

If you want maroon for instance the colour it changes to make it that colour and it will change back to maroon that should fix it for now.

 

[Legolamb]

Nifty bug. I must have caught it from you I even played around with the icon size, thinking that smaller would solve any memory problems. Definately report it and hope they name it after you!