How To Change The Folder Colors On A Mac Computer

[@manchesterstress9055]

Brilliant thank you! We were looking for ways to simplify our filing and this is perfect. Thank you for taking to the time to record there - they really do make a difference to us small companies 🙌

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the nice words and I'm glad it helped you guys out. Thanks again for watching.

[@mattycilovelucy]

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[@craigneidel]

Yes, check out my channel - especially older videos - I have over 620 Apple related videos. Thanks.

[@mattycilovelucy]

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[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback on everything and appreciate the sub.

[@cocogoddess760]

Really loved your instructions, mine work on Ventura OS. I was having issues with the copy to clipboard being grayed out I went to the activity monitor and typed PBOARD and selected STOP then QUIT. Thanks a lot

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad everything worked out.

[@icantgivecredit871]

Very creative! I used to do this to change icons altogether, but I never considered changing the lighting/color properties of existing icons. Back in the days of classic MacOS, this was a stock color label feature: a color overlay, from a list of about 5-6 colors, could be given to a folder/file of the user's choice. Later, with OSX, a file's being labeled resulted in its text description being encapsulated by the chosen 'lozenge.' (This is the style I prefer.) Ever since Mavericks, labeling a folder involves selecting a respective color of dot that's placed beside the file's description - my least favorite.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for sharing and watching. I agree for sure.

[@jimmay5334]

Great tutorial. Your talk speed is just right. My first attempt was successful. When I tried to change the color for another folder, the "Finder" "Copy" was black, but the ⌘C (to the right) is grayed out. Can you help? I'm running Mac OS Sonoma 14.4.1 on a MacBook Air.

[@craigneidel]

I'm not sure I saw that before but maybe search for that exact issue in Google to see if somebody has come up with a solution. I'll let you know if I can find something. Thanks for watching.

[@eduardowatkinz]

Thanks for the tip.....

[@vijaykrishna4671]

Thanks for the tip. However, this works only on non-stock folders as am unable to change the stock folder colors like downloads/desktop etc

[@craigneidel]

Yes this is for new folders like the one I created. Thanks for input for others and for watching vijay

[@JoannaCutaia-Beales]

Thank you for the video. When I get to the "new from clipboard" step it is light grey and not available to click on. Can you help?

[@craigneidel]

I'm not sure why it would be doing that. If I can think of anything I'll let you know but that is a bit of an older video and I would need to research that as I have not seen it.

[@robertdorr1769]

Thanks,; changing colours of folders can be very helpfull in organizing folders. I wish Apple would make it easier as they did years ago but then dropped it. After all ,it is supposed to be a graphic interface!

[@craigneidel]

Yes, it's a bit harder to do now but still possible with this little trick. Thanks for watching.

[@cs77smith67]

It work perfectly for me 😊 thanks 👍

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback and for watching.

[@jordan.shanley]

Wow Thank You so much!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching.

[@julienielsen3746]

I have Folder Forge from Apple App Store on my old MacBook Pro. Might put this on my new iMac instead.

[@craigneidel]

Cool and thanks for the feedback.

[@DvorahDavida5778]

Thanks for the walkthrough. But I'm with you. This is WAY too complicated. Apple. Do better.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching Tamsen.

[@Dalal-b5h]

Yaaaay I have colours now!

[@craigneidel]

Yes, they are nice to help organize the files.

[@shayluv07]

For me it doesn’t work when I want to do “New from clipboard” pls help 🙏🏼

[@craigneidel]

It should work OK unless you are running a very old version of MacOS

[@jenniferbell6832]

I am trying to find out how to change the colour of an existing folder.

[@craigneidel]

I would just use the same process.

[@mario11xx]

Have a question I'm running Big Sur on my 2020 Mac and I noticed the new from clipboard is grayed out I want to know what's going on it... used to work now it's grayed out any suggestions

[@craigneidel]

I have not seen that and not sure if this info will help you. If anybody else sees this please post too. - www.iphonetricks.org/how-to-fix-universal-clipboard-not-working/

[@vicajl5973]

Can you change the white font that is under the folder icons?

[@craigneidel]

I'm not sure about that and will need to research. But, if you right click (have that enabled) the folder you can select a bunch of "dot" colors. The dot will be placed in front of the text and can be a different color for all it's worth.

[@vicajl5973]

Thanks for replying, I'm new to the Mac, I thought may be I was just missing something obvious,

[@craigneidel]

Welcome and good luck with everything.

[@Levonxyt]

Does not work for me, after copying the new from clipboard is still greyed out????

[@craigneidel]

It should work but what OS version are you on. The video was from a year or two ago?

[@Baker19911]

Way too much work. thanks tho!

[@craigneidel]

Only takes a minute but in the end it could be easier.

[@edithayer8085]

I'm sorry but you talk way toooo fast.

[@craigneidel]

Ok.