Color Labels Mac OS X includes a welcome blast from the Mac's distant past: icon labels. This feature lets you tag selected icons with one of seven different labels | . Color Labels Mac OS X includes a welcome blast from the Mac s distant past icon labels. This feature lets you tag selected icons with one of seven different labels each of which has both a text label and a color associated with it. To do so highlight the icons. Open the File menu or the menu or the shortcut menu that appears when you Control-click right-click the icons . There under the heading Color Label you ll see seven colored dots which represent the seven different labels you can use. Figure 2-8 shows the routine. . What Labels Are Good For After you ve applied labels to icons you can perform some unique file-management tasks in some cases on all of them simultaneously even if they re scattered across multiple hard drives. For example Figure 2-8. Use the File menu menu or shortcut menu to apply label tags to highlighted icons. Instantly the icon s name takes on the selected shade. In a list or column view the entire row takes on that shade as shown in Figure 2-9. If you choose the little X you re removing any labels that you may have applied. Round up files with Find. Using the Find command described in Chapter 3 you can round up all icons with a particular label. Thereafter moving these icons atonce is a piece of cake choose Edit Select All and then drag any one of the highlighted icons out of the results window and into the target folder or disk. Using labels in conjunction with Find this way is one of the most useful and inexpensive backup schemes ever devised whenever you finish working on a document that you d like to back up Control-click it and apply a label called for example Backup. At the end of each day use the Find command to round up all files with the Backup label and then drag them as a group onto your backup disk. Sort a list view by label. No other Mac sorting method lets you create an arbitrary order for the icons in a window. When you sort by label the Mac creates alphabetical clusters withineach label grouping as shown in .
