Comments on: Beginning Mac: Color Labels

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:19:56 +0000

Now I can’t label anything!! help please!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:14:42 +0000

My macintosh hd has been labled, but it won’t let me label it a different color! what do I do??????

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:07:54 +0000

Someone on another board pointed me towards a solution to my question:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070408193708936

So far I really like the setup.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:29:12 +0000

Well I have just a general file where I store a mish mash of files rather than putting them on my desktop. These are files that, odds are, I won’t be keeping permanently but they may remain for awhile. I just thought color coding the different file types would quickly let me scan that folder and maybe keep it cleaned up better than I have been (since the file type icons are kinda small). I just read the article and wanted to play around with the color coding and that was what my first thought was on how I could apply it and experiment a little.

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:19:00 +0000

@Luke: I guess the question here is “what is the purpose” of doing that to your .pdfs? If it’s for finding .pdf files, then it’s redundant as you can do smart searches just for .pdf files.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:36:16 +0000

Is it possible to have my labels automatically set their color by file type? For instance, can I set it up where all pdfs would be labeled green? If I can’t do it system wide, can I set up an automator file where, when I place files into it, this action is taken?

If this is a bad idea, why?

Thanks in advance!

By: Relephant

Relephant — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:20:47 +0000

You can also give label names using the Finder preferences. Give Green the name “Financial” and you can see the label names using the Finder column Label Name. Useful if can’t remember what colour means what.

For me, I use different colours for application types e.g. Red = Image manipulation apps, Blue = Utility apps etc which is useful for knowing which apps does what and allow smart folders to group apps by type… lots of possibilities there with colours!

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:45:48 +0000

And the beauty of using a simple categorization method like labels, is that you can easily build on it as you get more comfortabel
- Smart Folders
- Automator Actions
- Hazel (http://www.noodlesoft.com/)

with almost no effort you can start sorting things based on how recently you’ve used them, and having them labeled automatically. a nice building-block technique. Good call Josh.

By: Galley

Galley — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:07:23 +0000

There’s also a handy script that sets the label color of your audio files according to their file type.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts07.php?page=2#colorfilelabelsoftracks