[samslaves]

Is there any utility or haxie to disable the new label system from the finder?

Thanx
Sam

[Jim Paradise]

Why not just not use it? Seems simple enough of a solution to me....

[Developer]

Originally posted by Jim Paradise:
Why not just not use it? Seems simple enough of a solution to me....

I understand that it's very tempting to use them. So some people might indeed need a haxie to remove the feature.

[aaanorton]

When I connect to a server that stores folders with labels from OS 9, I get all those labels showing up. Yuck. I wish I could disable this "feature" too.

[Terri]

What I hate is that Mac OS X never crashes or freezes. Can't someone bring back this feature so that when I have unsaved work a bomb comes up on my screen and I loose everything?

Seriously Labels are one of the best Mac features there is. I couldn't live without them.

You could probably write an AppleScript to remove all the Label info from a drive, but I don't think your coworkers would like that very much.

[Dale Sorel]

Originally posted by Jim Paradise:
Why not just not use it? Seems simple enough of a solution to me....

One would think

[CharlesS]

Just downgrade to Jaguar.

[Twilly Spree]

Originally posted by Terri:
What I hate is that Mac OS X never crashes or freezes. Can't someone bring back this feature so that when I have unsaved work a bomb comes up on my screen and I loose everything?

Seriously Labels are one of the best Mac features there is. I couldn't live without them.

LOL! Ain't that the truth. There is no pleasing some people.

I <heart> labels!

[mrtew]

I agree with the first poster. I hate the way they look, I can't think of any useful purpose for them, and I certainly don't want to see all those colored dots in every contextual menu for the rest of my life. Some people may like candy computers and I don't want to take that away from them, but I want mine more of a graphite/titanium looking professional type outfit, and I too think there should be some way to remove them or at least a way to ask for this without a bunch of people piliing on saying how great they are. Geez.

[Terri]

Guess you have never visited Office Depot and bought some labels to, errr, label your files.

I do a lot of web work and I use them to label what needs to be submitted, which files are to be used as templates, what folders are in progress, what needs to be archived.

I like the new way they work, much easier to see. I do wish we could edit the colors like we use to be able to, but it isn't really a big deal.

[chabig]

I always like science classes in school much better than English or History classes. It really bothers me that Safari has a "History" menu. Geesh! I got enough of that in High School. Can somebody PLEASE write a haxi to remove that menu?

[Moonray]

If you can't ignore them you have exactly two more options: start working with them or start an online petition about adding an option to remove them from the contextual menu in the Finder preferences.

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[booboo]

I find Labels seriously useful, and have been surprised how many people have found ways to make them indispensable in their own particular work-flows.

Having the ability to tag and sort files according to your own criteria is even better in its potential than in the current (and previous) incarnations.

Two words: meta data.

However, I agree the OS X Labels current implementation leaves something to be desired: They take up nearly 3 lines in a menu (what's wrong with a regular 'sub-menu'?)

In List view, a labeled item looks too similar to a high-lighted one, which is why a high-lighted and labeled item has its label change to a 'blob' when it's selected . . . This seems like an afterthought hack to work round a problem that shouldn't have been created in the first place.

And finally I agree that it would be nice to have some control over what goes in our contextual menus. I'd personally swap those 3 Folder Actions options for Show View Options any day of the week.

I seem to remember Fruit Menu allowing me to add to my contextual menu's, but not to remove the standard Apple stuff . . . maybe it will when it finally appears for 10.3 . . .

[mrtew]

Originally posted by booboo:
I find Labels seriously useful, and have been surprised how many people have found ways to make them indispensable in their own particular work-flows.

There's a good reason not to use them right there! They are obviously highly addictive. I sure am glad I wasn't hooked on them like you guys when they were missing from OSX for TWO YEARS! :-] (p.s. I figured out a way the theme them out of the menus so I am feeling much better now. They are still there but they are all grey!)

[hldan]

Originally posted by mrtew:
There's a good reason not to use them right there! They are obviously highly addictive. I sure am glad I wasn't hooked on them like you guys when they were missing from OSX for TWO YEARS! :-] (p.s. I figured out a way the theme them out of the menus so I am feeling much better now. They are still there but they are all grey!)

Mrtew, don't take this too personally but you're nuts! The whole point of enjoying the features of your computer is to get addicted to what it's capabilites are. What's the point of having useless software or features preinstalled that will nobody will ever develop a habit of using? Apple brought back the labels due to "popular" demand.
I for one have several programs in my Finder folder and only a few things like the Library and Preferences and Utilities I access day to day so putting a colored label on them makes them easier for me to find them out of a bunch of folders.
And to the original poster. Get a life Dude. You don't have to use the labels, they are not smaking you in the face begging you to use them.
My gosh, Apple wouldn't include any good software if were up the whiney posters that complain about not wanting the free software that comes with our Macs. Dell.com may have just what you want if you don't want labels included with your OS.