Re: Folder Label Color settings ?

[Tina K.]

On 2011/04/18 13:30, Jonas Lopez so eloquently wrote:

WELL then what is the FINDER/Pref/Labels that shows several colors used
for???


*sigh*


--- On *Mon, 4/18/11, Bruce Johnson //* wrote:



Well, I suspect that Cliff is actually talking about Label colors,
not folder colors: control-click (or right-click if your mouse
supports it) on the folder and select a color from the Label menu item.


There's your answer right there.


To color the actual folder, you need to have folder icons of
different colors handy, such as those here:



and change the icon by doing a Get Info on the icon file, selecting
the icon, copying it, doing a Get Info on the target folder,
selecting the icon and pasting it; same way it's worked since OS 7
or so...


I believe that Unsanity's Labels X can color just the icon.

But it is still a haxie and haxies can possibly have negative effects on 
your system. Caveat emptor (which Google actually translates to "let him 
beware of the buyer").



Tina

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Re: Folder Label Color settings ?

[Jonas Lopez]

WELL then what is the FINDER/Pref/Labels that shows several colors used for???

JML
--- On Mon, 4/18/11, Bruce Johnson  wrote:

From: Bruce Johnson 
Subject: Re: Folder Label Color settings ?
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, April 18, 2011, 11:39 AM


On Apr 18, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote:

>  and then I could change folder color.
> 
> So glad you mentioned this little item. I have tried to color the folder or 
> file and could not do it. I researched the HELP but still could NOT COLOR THE 
> FILE OR FOLDER. I do find the colors in the Finder/Pref but I can not select 
> them.
> 
> Please take a moment to tell us how to do this.

Well, I suspect that Cliff is actually talking about Label colors, not folder 
colors: control-click (or right-click if your mouse supports it) on the folder 
and select a color from the Label menu item.

To color the actual folder, you need to have folder icons of different colors 
handy, such as those here:

<http://www.myappleguide.com/blogs/iphone-world/2224/colored-folder-icons-leopard>
 and change the icon by doing a Get Info on the icon file, selecting the icon, 
copying it, doing a Get Info on the target folder, selecting the icon and 
pasting it; same way it's worked since OS 7 or so...

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Re: Folder Label Color settings ?

[Bruce Johnson]

On Apr 18, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote:

>  and then I could change folder color.
> 
> So glad you mentioned this little item. I have tried to color the folder or 
> file and could not do it. I researched the HELP but still could NOT COLOR THE 
> FILE OR FOLDER. I do find the colors in the Finder/Pref but I can not select 
> them.
> 
> Please take a moment to tell us how to do this.

Well, I suspect that Cliff is actually talking about Label colors, not folder 
colors: control-click (or right-click if your mouse supports it) on the folder 
and select a color from the Label menu item.

To color the actual folder, you need to have folder icons of different colors 
handy, such as those here:


 and change the icon by doing a Get Info on the icon file, selecting the icon, 
copying it, doing a Get Info on the target folder, selecting the icon and 
pasting it; same way it's worked since OS 7 or so...

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University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
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Re: Folder Label Color settings ?

[Jonas Lopez]

 and then I could change folder color.

So glad you mentioned this little item. I have tried to color the folder or 
file and could not do it. I researched the HELP but still could NOT COLOR THE 
FILE OR FOLDER. I do find the colors in the Finder/Pref but I can not select 
them.

Please take a moment to tell us how to do this.

JML

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Re: Folder Label Color settings ?

[Cliff Rediger]

On Apr 17, 5:54 pm, Bruce Johnson 
wrote:
 Thank you for the response.
>
> Did you figure out what caused the problem?

Bruce,
First I cloned the external drive from another drive and I naturally
became the administrator. Then I added GLK (father-in-law) as a User
and then made him the administrator. (The plan was to boot from this
drive and/or clone it back to his internal drive.) Then I drag/dropped
GLK's backed up files to the "new" external drive. Most of the files
(but not all) were locked, read only, with me as the owner. I had to
unlock, change ownership and then I could change folder color.
I don't think this answers "cause". That is, I don't know what I could/
should have done to avoid the laborious file by file fix.
Fortunately, GLK doesn't have much on his drive.
Maybe it's the drag/drop file thing?
hth
Cliff

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Re: Folder Label Color settings ?

[Bruce Johnson]

On Apr 17, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote:

> 
> 
> On Apr 17, 3:28 pm, Brian Christmas  wrote:
>> 
>> Are you sure the files/folders aren't locked? or the privileges different?
>> 
>> Do a get info on them to check.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Santa
>> 
> Yes, that was the problem exactly.
> Had to go through each file and unlock, change the owner and color.
> Thank you for the response.

Did you figure out what caused the problem? I ask because a few folks have come 
to me with similar weird ownership issues after copying a lot of files to 
external drives, and I haven't been able to figure out why. OS X is supposed to 
allow full read/write access to files on removable drives.
 
I suspect it's got something to do with ACL's on files but I've usually just 
brute-forced the issue by forcing an ownership change.

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Re: Folder Label Color settings ?

[Cliff Rediger]

On Apr 17, 3:28 pm, Brian Christmas  wrote:
>
> Are you sure the files/folders aren't locked? or the privileges different?
>
> Do a get info on them to check.
>
> Regards
>
> Santa
>
Yes, that was the problem exactly.
Had to go through each file and unlock, change the owner and color.
Thank you for the response.
cliff

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Re: Folder Label Color settings ?

[Brian Christmas]

G'day Cliff

No problems renaming on my imac running 10.6.7

Are you sure the files/folders aren't locked? or the privileges different?

Do a get info on them to check.

Regards

Santa


On 18/04/2011, at 1:06 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote:

> Running Tiger on G4
> 
> While transferring files from my father in-law's G4 internal HD
> to an external HD
> I colored the files that I transferred to keep track.
> It seems that the folders or files that I dragged and dropped before
> coloring
> now allow me to uncolor them on the new drive.
> But if I colored them before transferring, now I cannot uncolor them
> on the external.
> 
> Not a big deal really, but any suggestions are appreciated
> 
> Cliff
> 
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Folder Label Color settings ?

[Cliff Rediger]

Running Tiger on G4

While transferring files from my father in-law's G4 internal HD
to an external HD
I colored the files that I transferred to keep track.
It seems that the folders or files that I dragged and dropped before
coloring
now allow me to uncolor them on the new drive.
But if I colored them before transferring, now I cannot uncolor them
on the external.

Not a big deal really, but any suggestions are appreciated

Cliff

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