Organizing Files and Folders by Color
Giving an icon or folder a distinctive color can help you organize and find them later. Mac OS X provides seven different colors labels (
) from which to select. The default color label names appear as Red, Orange, Yellow, Green Blue, Purple, and Gray, but you can customize them to suit your own needs and preferences, such as “Final,” “In Progress,” “Work,” “Personal,” and “Backup.” When you change an icon's color, the icon and name take on the selected color shade. In List or Column view, the entire row takes on the color shade. In List view, you can sort files and folders quickly by color label. Sorting by ...
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