Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The file labels in version 10.3 of the Mac OS let the user give colored backgrounds to file names in three different types of views, through the action menu applicable to the current selected file. This feature existed, in a way, in OS releases prior to OS X. In those other versions the choice of a color would cause the icon to completely wash itself out in that color, losing some distinct traits in the process. The new label feature here applies color only to the background of file names. When a labeled item is selected in Column View, a colored dot after the name indicates the label. There is a choice of 7 colors, which cannot be exchanged for other colors. The names of the colors however can be changed at will, to represent categories assigned to the lable colors. Labeled files and folders in the Dock do not show the color of the label in the icon and not in the name, making it hard for a user to figure out the label of a Docked item. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.