7/16/2023 0 Comments Mac path finder tags![]() ![]() If the file is tagged with more than one colored tag, you’ll see a stack of circles, slightly overlapping. Tag colors have a more subtle effect: A small colored circle appears next to the file’s name. Labels surrounded the entire filename of a file (or its row in a list) with the appropriate color. Tags can have colors, but those are shown in the Finder slightly differently from the way labels were in the past. The new Tags tab in Preferences gives you lots of power, but can be a bit confusing. The Tags tab also offers a strip of circles that you can drag and drop tags on, which apparently determines which tags appear in the Finder sidebar, the File menu, and in a contextual menu that appears when you control-click on an item in the Finder. In the new Tags tab of Finder’s Preferences window you can assign colors to tags (but there are only eight colors to choose from), and also choose which tags show up in the sidebar. In an evolution of the old concept of colored labels, there are also ways to identify tagged files visually in the Finder. And if you start typing a tag in a Finder window’s search box, you’ll see an option to search for files containing that tag. ![]() A small subset of your tags is listed by default, but if you click All Tags a second column appears that lists every tag on your Mac. Click on a tag and you’ll immediately see all of the files on your Mac that have that tag. In the sidebar of every Finder window (and some Open dialog boxes), there’s a new Tags list. Why spend all this time tagging your files? Because tagged files are files that are easier to find. And in the Save dialog box, there’s a new Tags field that strongly encourages you to add as many tags as you want to every file you create. In the Finder, this involves a process that replaces colored labels (sort of). And with Mavericks, Apple wants you to consider tagging your files so that they’re easier to find later. But you are a Mac user with lots of files. Okay, so maybe you’re not a blogger, and maybe you aren’t on #teamhashtag. But no regular user is ever going to command-click on a folder and discover tabs, and that’s probably fine. For readers of sites like Macworld, it’s a cool productivity booster. So if you’re Desktop-phobic, you can shift the Finder into a single window full of tabs and use Mission Control to move into and out of it.Įven more than support for multiple monitors, the addition of tabs in the Finder seems like a feature that’s destined for power users, not the masses. If you drag and hold, the tab will behave like a spring-loaded folder, and that tab will become active.Īlong with support for tabs, the Finder now offers a full-screen mode. ![]() If you drag and drop, it’ll move the file there. The process behaves just like dropping files on a folder. Once you’ve got multiple tabs open, you can move files from one tab to another by dragging and dropping them on a tab. If you end up with a whole lot of Finder windows open, you can gather them all together as a series of tabs in one window by choosing Merge All Windows from the Window menu.Įach tab behaves like its own Finder window you can adjust the view settings of each one accordingly, so one tab can show an icon view, another a list view, and so on. Just as in Safari, you can also type Command-T to open a new tab manually. Would it be too much to ask to let users open folders in new windows by default if they choose? And how about a modifier key, and a contextual-menu option to open a folder in a new window?) If you want to open a folder in a new tab, hold down the Command key while double-clicking. (Apparently gone is the option to automatically open double-clicked folders in a new window-a shame, since I always preferred that setting. Double-clicking a folder in the Finder opens it in the same window. If all you do in the Finder is double-click on things, you’ll never actually see a tab. ![]() Tabs in the Finder work just like they do in Safari. A revolution was born, one that, as of OS X Mavericks, has finally made it all the way to the Finder. At some point, someone clever decided that window clutter was bad, and that it might be easier to allow several pages to be contained in a stack of tabs inside a single window. Web browsers used to feature separate windows for every webpage. ![]()
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