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tim wrote:

Is there any way to label folders like you could in OS 9.2 (i.e.
orange, blue, red, etc.)

i've never seen OS 9.
can someone tell me what reason labels are used?

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In article <3qfzlrjq0n.fsf@shell4.tdl.com>,
Phil Stripling <phil_stripling@cieux.zzn.com> wrote:

tfprusd@yahoo.com (tim) writes:

Is there any way to label folders like you could in OS 9.2 (i.e.
orange, blue, red, etc.)

That's advertised as a feature of the upcomong Panther. I like that feature and look forward to its return.

If not, is there a similar feature that allows you to sort and display folders in the order you want?

I am sorry to say that my workaround is not exactly agile. I have copied a bunch of custom folder icons and use them instead. I forgot where I got
them, but I presume a google of
+"custom folder icons" +"OS X"
will get you a gaggle of resources.

(If I'm not clear on what I'm doing -- I get a custom folder icon and substitute that for the standard folder icon.)

There's also Labels X, from Unsanity. Look for it on VersionTracker.
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In article <3qfzlrjq0n.fsf@shell4.tdl.com>,
Phil Stripling <phil_stripling@cieux.zzn.com> wrote:

tfprusd@yahoo.com (tim) writes:

Is there any way to label folders like you could in OS 9.2 (i.e.
orange, blue, red, etc.)

That's advertised as a feature of the upcomong Panther. I like that feature and look forward to its return.

I, too, look forward to their return -- one big problem which I ran into
with OS <= 9 was the fact that lots of 3rd party software included files
which had been labelled by the manufacturer and I'm really hoping that developers learn not to do this with OS X.3. It really defeated the
purpose of having *user* defined labels.

André

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In article <aisaak-F3DEB6.19482801072003@news.verizon.net>, Andre G.
Isaak <aisaak@platypus.wellesley.edu> wrote:

In article <3qfzlrjq0n.fsf@shell4.tdl.com>,
Phil Stripling <phil_stripling@cieux.zzn.com> wrote:

tfprusd@yahoo.com (tim) writes:

Is there any way to label folders like you could in OS 9.2 (i.e.
orange, blue, red, etc.)

That's advertised as a feature of the upcomong Panther. I like that feature >> and look forward to its return.

I, too, look forward to their return -- one big problem which I ran into >with OS <= 9 was the fact that lots of 3rd party software included files >which had been labelled by the manufacturer and I'm really hoping that >developers learn not to do this with OS X.3. It really defeated the
purpose of having *user* defined labels.

Unfortunately the implementation of 'labels' in Panther is currently
very ugly. Icons don't change colour but the label background does.
This looks bad enough on the desktop, to a veteran OpColourLight user
like me, but in list/column view it looks like kids' playtime as the
label colour extends across the full width of the column.

Stan
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