![]() ![]() They were big, bright colors that were easy to identify, especially in list view.Īny readers out there who are using the Mac OS and editing video have probably made good use of Mac OS Finder labels over the years to assign a designated color to a folder, file or group of files for whatever reason one might color anything. With Mavericks, Apple changed this behavior and made these colored labels much less easy to see by removing them entirely in favor of tags. Colors are still there but a lot less useful. While tags are useful in their own right Mavericks took away the nice, big, easily seen colored labels that we have come to know, love and rely on. These tiny colored dots just aren’t useful when it comes to quick, at-a-glance, organization. With Mavericks Apple gave us tagging which might very well be infinitely more useful than just colored labels but to be honest I haven’t really used it. Tagging has been available for years via the awesome Finder replacement Pathfinder but I didn’t use it there either.Īll I did was notice that the bright, colorful labels that used to be available in Finder list view are now just tiny dots.Įven in icon view the colors are reduced to dots in Mavericks. Leave it to third party products to get those nice colored labels back and easy to see. Of course there’s the $40 Path Finder from Cocoatech. Path Finder does so much it’d take someone smarter than me to list all the amazing features but keeping the colored labels is the thing we’re looking at here. Path Finder has been a part of Useful Tools for Editors in the past and this just keeps it my favorite go-to tool as a Finder replacement.īig, bright and easy to see. Path Finder rocks and the upcoming version 7 will have Dropbox integration. Path Finder makes the icon view labels much better as well. XtraFinder is probably the easiest way to get those list label colors back as this free Finder add-on is very unobtrusive as it doesn’t take over the whole Finder the way Path Finder does. That’s nice and viewable labels in list view. XtraFinder does a great job of making icon view color labels bold and easy to see.īeyond those colored labels there’s a very useful Dual Window option in the XtraFinder menu bar that tiles two windows either vertical or horizontal for easy moving between them. That’s some very handy stuff for free.Īnother one that even says “brings colored labels back to your Finder” right on the top of their webpage is TotalFinder. For $18 you can get quite a few other nice things added into the Finder as well. I don’t have TotalFinder installed anywhere so this image came from the TotalFinder website. ![]() I tried TotalFinder years ago and liked it quite a bit. But I still found myself going back to Path Finder. Ive been using TotalFinder for years now, but they no longer support the newer versions of MacOS. I’m sure there are other options for getting those colors back. If you have any other suggestions please let us know in the comments below.new Added a new user-configurable option to always use Finder icon rendering for the Colorful Sidebar feature.(※ This option will also cause TotalFinder to ignore the user-custom ~/.ist file.) When enabled, this option will cause sidebar icons to display exactly how they would in Finder, which also disables the leftover skeuomorphic icons for the "Music", "Pictures", and "Movies" folders.fixed Fixed an issue where the Colorful Sidebar feature would not display most sidebar icons correctly on macOS 12 Monterey, macOS 11 Big Sur, and macOS 10.15 Catalina.fixed Fixed an issue where custom Finder icons applied using other macOS tweaks (such as IconChamp) would no longer display once TotalFinder was enabled.Is there some app I'm unfamiliar with that people are using as an alternative to Finder that doesn't modify the OS function? Is there something that just makes the whole experience better? I just feel like I'm going back to the stone ages by using the stock Finder setup. I looked into trying to emulate this by setting Finder to show when you go to a hot corner, but for whatever reason Finder isn't even an option to active in there. Now the question I have is, how do people deal with how terrible Finder is? Most of what I love about TotalFinder is the visor functionality, which allows me have the Finder pop up from the bottom of the screen when pressing Option + `. I do currently have Intel hardware, but at some point I'll want to get Apple Silicon hardware and the end will be neigh. The problem I have is that it requires you to turn off SIP on your machine, which is less than ideal, and for M1 machines can't run it period. ![]() I've used that app for over a decade and it truly is the best for my needs. I notice there are a few pimped up alternatives to Finder on the market. I have been struggling lately with trying to wean myself off using TotalFinder. 1 I've never been that keen on Finder, having been a Windows user for most of my life. ![]()
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