Color label messages

I know I can make rules to color certain messages but what I want is to look at a particular message and mark it as important and make it red or some other color. I can FLAG a message but that is not as useful as having the message stand out because it is a different color. Both Eudora and Thunderbird let me do this, does Apple mail? Did I miss something obvious like I often do? Thanks.
Bea

Yes it does. A series of Applescript supports several colors which can be sorted:
http://www.twistermc.com/blog/2005/06/03/labels-for-apples-mail-application

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Close all folders in Mail? Color Label folders? Find folder? And More!

Hi all.
I have a LOT of mail. They're all very organized, though. Heaps of Mailboxes (Folders) and Sub-folders.
I also have heaps of rules dutifully sending incoming mail to their appropriate mailboxes.
However...
It has reached a point where one of of the major bottlenecks in my daily workflow is sorting through all these mailboxes.
There are 5 primary mailboxes with perhaps 100-ish subfolders or sub-subfolders. Maybe more.
When they are all open, or a lot of them are open, it is difficult to find the a specific folder when I need it. It would help if I could close all open folder with a shortcut.
Is this possible?
It would also help if I could visually distinguish each level. Can I color label the mailboxes(not the messages themselves)?
Another help would be if I could run a search for a folder Mailbox name. Is this possible?
Lastly when I create a rule I would love it if there was an option to 'Create new Mailbox' in the rule dialog box rather than having to create the mailbox first. Am I just missing this? See link for illustration:
http://img.skitch.com/20080820-eaqmy89emw6xm5pcj86iuqu992.jpg

I just had a look and you need to create the mailbox PRIOR to asking the rules to move it into that.
Now, automator lets you create a new workflow, but not sure as to how to set that one up (might be possible; however, my mathematical brain tells what you want to achieve is flawed:
1) IF new mail equals "tangerine", create new mailbox tangerine, then move message to mailbox "tangerine. (FINE so far!)
2) the second "tangerine" message arrives, and the workflow should FAIL (because it cannot create a "new" mailbox "tangerine", as there is ALREADY a mailbox named "tangerine")
3) if automator cannot execute "If" and "and" and the "sort by" all together, then distinguish (a "tangerine" message might actually need to go to "pear" but refers to "pears and tangerines", so it ends up in the wrong mailbox), you may have to start and restart mail, until all stages of the script have been executed.
You see the problems?
Anyhow, here is a link to some automator info:
http://automatorworld.com/archives/automator-for-os-x-105-leopard-revealed/
Good luck

How to get the same colored labels as in the gmail web interface?

Hi,
I would like to get the same preview in Mail.app (with different colored labels) as in Gmail. Currently, my Gmail account in synced with Mail.app, hence I have access to all my mailboxes (hence all my labels). I would like to add a rule which reads as :
if Message is in (gmail label mailbox)
then Set color to (color)
However, this feature doesn't seem to be here. Basically, how to automatically colored a message being in a given mailbox (to get a nice rainbow in my general Inbox).
Thanks in advance!
Damien

I'm pretty sure you can't do that in Mail. If you do find out, post back—I'd like to know too!

Automator: Apply Color Label and Copy to Folder

I'm trying my hand at Automator, and I need help with one of my workflows (⇪). Basically, it's a service (accessible via right-click) that will apply a color label on an image file, and then copy that image file to a corresponding folder with the same color label. My current version works fine, except for the fact that I had to create seven versions to accommodate all seven colors.
Is there any way to turn the color into a variable? I want the workflow to prompt me for a color, and then use that choice to run a search for the appropriate folder. I'd rather not hard code the color choice into separate services that all do the same thing.
Also, the service currently assumes that it will run fast enough before I can deselect the target file. I'm sure it's possible that the folder search could lag out while I select another file, and the service will ultimately copy the newly selected item, rather than the initial target. Is there a way to ensure the service acts on whatever was selected when it was first triggered?
I don't know AppleScript beyond copying-and-pasting other people's codes, so that limits my automation quite a bit. I don't know how to prompt for a label index choice and then feed the result into a find function. I also don't know how to record the file path of the selected item, and then feed that into the copy function at the end to ensure it doesn't copy the wrong file.

Typically a list of items is passed to a workflow, so you will usually (depending on what you are doing with the items) need to step through the items in that list. If there is only one destination folder with the target label, you can just search for it, otherwise you will need to specify the destination in some other way.
The following Service workflow example assumes that there is only one destination folder that has a given label color. It gets the label index of one of the input items and finds a folder with the same index at a specified base location (to limit the search range).
1) Input items are automatically passed to an application or service, otherwise another action to get FInder Items can be used
2) *Label Finder Items* (show the action when the workflow runs)
3) *Run AppleScript* (paste the following script)
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #DAFFB6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into an Automator 'Run AppleScript' action">
on run {input, parameters} -- copy to a labelled folder
This action is designed to follow a "Label Finder Items" action. It will get the
first folder of the base folder that has the same label and copy the input items
to that folder.
input: a list of Finder items received from a "Label Finder Items" action
output: a list of Finder items to be passed on to a following action
set output to {}
set skippedItems to {} -- this will be a list of skipped items (errors)
set baseFolder to (((path to pictures folder) as text) & "Shelley:Mary:") as alias -- a place to start looking for the destination folder
tell application "Finder"
set theLabel to label index of (the first item of the input) -- just pick one, they should all be the same
get folders of (entire contents of baseFolder) whose label index is theLabel -- include subfolders
-- get folders of baseFolder whose label index is theLabel -- no subfolders
if the result is not {} then
set theDestination to the first item of the result
else -- no folder
error number -128 -- cancel
end if
end tell
repeat with anItem in the input -- step through each item in the input
try
tell application "Finder" to duplicate anItem to theDestination
set the end of the output to (the result as alias)
on error number errorNumber -- name already exists, etc
set errorNumber to " (" & (errorNumber as text) & ")"
-- any additional error handling code here
set the end of skippedItems to (anItem as text) & errorNumber
end try
end repeat
showSkippedAlert for skippedItems
return the output -- pass the result(s) to the next action
end run
to showSkippedAlert for skippedItems
show an alert dialog for any items skipped, with the option to cancel the rest of the workflow
parameters - skippedItems [list]: the items skipped
returns nothing
if skippedItems is not {} then
set {alertText, theCount} to {"Error with AppleScript action", count skippedItems}
if theCount is greater than 1 then
set theMessage to (theCount as text) & space & " items were skipped:"
else
set theMessage to "1 item was skipped:"
end if
set {tempTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, return}
set {skippedItems, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {skippedItems as text, tempTID}
if button returned of (display alert alertText message (theMessage & return & skippedItems) alternate button "Cancel" default button "OK") is "Cancel" then error number -128
end if
return
end showSkippedAlert
</pre>

Recursively removing color labels in one go?

Does anyone know a way to recursively remove color labels within a massive folder? Deep, deep nests exist in there and descending up and down the tree could take forever. Is there a way to select the top level folder and make all files and folders that have been color labelled to be reset to no color? The only way I have of doing it right now is to Find by label color, then select all files, then remove color, then move on to the next color....
Message was edited by: Maxplanar

Open the AppleScript Editor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, select the folder in the Finder, and run:
tell application "Finder"
set label index of every item of entire contents of (selection as alias) to 0
end tell
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Where can I find old prefs like color labels

After installing a new OS on a new HD after a HD crash, I would like to copy old prefs and settings like color labels, mailboxes and messages, maybe the dock (to see which software was installed on the old HD). I have a back-up of the old system.

If you were having no problem with prefs on your old system, you could just replace ~/Library/Preferences from your backup. You can do the same with other folders.
Here's a list of where your important data is stored ("~" stands for "Home"):
Your data in ~/Documents
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
~/Library/Application Support/iCal(copy the whole folder)
Also in ~/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need)
~ /Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
~/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist *This is a very important file which contains all email account settings and general mail preferences.
~ /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
~/Library/Application Support/Safari (copy the whole folder)
~/Library/Application Support/iMovie (copy the whole folder)
~/Pictures/iPhoto library
~/Music/iTunes
~/Movies/iMovie
If you want cookies:
~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
~/Library/Application Support/Webfoundation/HTTPcookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in Documents/Microsoft user data
Also in ~ /Library/Preferences/Microsoft
internet explorer favorites are in ~/Library/Preferences/Explorer/favorites.html
-mj
[email protected]

Loss of color labels and other assorted bad things...

My G5 seems to be acting a little weird lately- nothing I can pin down but lots of little things.
• Beachballs spinning at odd times and places.
• If I have assigned a color label to a TextEdit document, all of a sudden resaving the document causes the color label to reset to "no color". This seems to be a new trick, and I'll bet nothing good will come of that.
• When opening some (but not all) graphic files with GraphicConverter, all of a sudden a "ghost image" of the picture paints itself on my right screen (of a two-screen setup). The actual GraphicConverter window itself is located on the left screen real estate, which is where I want it, but this "ghost image", without any framing, appears right in the middle of the right screen just after the normal GraphicConverter window opens on the left screen. Suspiciously, the size of the "ghost image" seems to be the same size as the actual legitimate image showing in the GraphicConverter window. I have my screen set to change the background picture every minute or so, and when it repaints the "ghost image" disappears. Moving any other window over the "ghost image" also erases it (like using a blackboard eraser).
Just to make this REALLY challenging, this problem seems to be inconsistent, as it does not do this every time. If there is a pattern here, I'm missing it.
So far (I think, but can't be sure) all of the graphics which fall victim to this phenomena have been scans by my Cannon scanner. Have had this scanner for a long time with no previous problems. If I open the same files which cause GraphicConverter to misbehave with other graphics-handling apps, there doesn't seem to be any problem with the other apps.
Some general background info:
• Have reinstalled the GraphicConverter app, and discarded it's preference files, but no help.
• Have also reinstalled the Cannon driver app, and discarded it's preference files, but again no help.
• If I boot the computer from a different (backup) external HD the same situation seems to exist. However, since I backup pretty often (using SuperDuper), if there is some sort of OS issue which has been building up it may be possible that the backup HD now simply has the same problem as the main internal HD.
• I did rebuild my directories with DiscWarrior a few weeks ago, for what that's worth. Have done that in the past with no problems occurring.
• The main internal HD is a fast 10000 rpm, and is partitioned into two sections: one section holds all of the OSX-10.4.10 and related operating files (apps, utilities, libraries and associated hooga-booga), with about 9.2gb still open. The other partition holds everything else, also with about 9.2gb still open. Three separate external HDs hold pretty much nothing but music files for iTunes.
All ideas will be appreciated!
Thanks- 0db
Message was edited by: Daniel Banchero
Message was edited by: Daniel Banchero

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For anyone who knows what this may be all about, here are some current stats from the Activity Monitor:
Threads: 15
Ports: 227
Context Switches: 3994556 and going up rapidly
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Page Ins: 2245 (and stationary)
Mach Messages In: 56585 and going up fast
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0db

Count page's with color label

Dear people,
Is it possible that InDesign can count the pages with a color label? (CS5)
So a window appears with the message.
10 yellow
20 red
etc. etc.
I' was searching arround the forum and cannot find anything with colorlabels.
Thanks for anyone who want to help!
Greetings from Holland

Good one, Marijan! I was thinking of an associative array as well, but I could not have written it as concise as you did.
For the inevitably flabbergasted lurkers:
a. You can use arrays like this: element[0], element[1], .. element[n], which is the regular way of addressing individual elements, but you can also address them associative: element['value'], element['name'], element['whatever']. You can use whatever you like as the index. This way, you don't have to remember '0 is for yellow, 1 is for red, 2 is for blue' -- you simply use element['yellow'], element['red'] and element['blue']. The associativity has nothing to do with the actual contents of each array element.
b. So Marijan uses 'pageColor' to store the counter for each page color -- if you encounter a page with a color label 'red', he adds 1 to pC['red'].
c. Problem is, you cannot add 1 to something that does not exist. If you encounter a page color 'purple' for the first time, you cannot say
pC['purple'] = pC['purple']+1;
(or a shorthand equivalent of the same) because it doesn't exist yet!
d. A non-existing array element is equal to null -- "nothing". (This is not the same as '0' (zero).) Now while you can check for
if (pC['purple'] == null) ..
you can also use the logical operator ! (not), which tests for equal-to-zero (and in this case, null is treated as if it is 0 -- that actually makes sense because it's certainly not not zero). The line
!(object)
will result in true if object equals null, false otherwise -- !x tests for zero, so if x is zero, the result is true. Capice?
e. By way of encore Marijan packs the entire test-if-exist/create-new/add-one into a single line. The notation
a ? b : c;
works like this: if (a) is true then do (b) else do (c). So if 'new color' is null -- it doesn't exist -- then add a new associated element (and set its counter value to '1', by the way), else add '1' to the value it already had.

Why doesn't the "Command Number" keyboard shortcut apply the colored label to the selected image?

Why doesn't the "Command Number" keyboard shortcut apply the colored label to the selected image? The similar keyboard shortcut to assign stars works, but the shortcut to assign a label color doesn't?

Just to be sure they haven;t been reassigned in your Aperture go to Aperture->Commands->Customize then in the search box in the upper right hand corner enter color.
You should see the keyboard shortcuts and the corresponding add label commands.
If they are set then quit Aperture move you preference file to the desktop and restart Aperture. The instructions for moving the preference file can be found at Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics
Post back the results
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano - Added preference file move

OSX Color Labels -- Visual Implementation

What do people think of how Color Labels are implemented in OSX -- coloring the file name and the whole area around it?
I'm finding this a bit too noticeable/distracting (in contrast to OS9 where sometimes you couldn't see the colors at all on a custom icon).
I'm thinking maybe a colored stroke around the icon would be better (though that might be awkward if icons can have transparent edges?).
Or maybe the filename could have just a thin outline around it (like the current look when you highlight a Color Labeled file, but even thinner) -- and then when you select the file, the whole name turns that color as the highlight.
And yes I would like to be able to edit the color shades too.
And I'll be horrified if, as I read in another post, color labels can get forgotten by OSX. Hope that gets fixed soon as sometimes I use color labels for really important meanings. OSX better not forget the way I position file icons inside a folder as well (one of things that make Windows so gross IMO) or I'm ruined. Which images go with that blue HTML file? Why the blue ones aligned nicely below it in the folder of course.
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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For anyone who knows what this may be all about, here are some current stats from the Activity Monitor:
Threads: 15
Ports: 227
Context Switches: 3994556 and going up rapidly
Faults: 19059 (and stationary)
Page Ins: 2245 (and stationary)
Mach Messages In: 56585 and going up fast
Mach Messages Out: 122817 and going up fast
Unix System Calls: 80243 and going up
Can anyone give me some guidance on all of this?
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0db

Why the color labels of my mails disappear?

Disappear the color labels which I mark some of my messages. When I reopen the program they do not exist.

labels are synchronised to the server for imap mail accounts. Unfortunately older server software does not support the feature and the labels are removed instead of synchronised.
If you mail account is checked on say a 15 minute schedule then the labels will also disappear every 15 minutes if my assumption is correct.

Color Label (icon only)

I found it somewhere before, but I can't seem to locate that option anymore, where color label only applies to the icon and not the text.
Help.

Hi starbark, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
There is no built-in feature on Tiger that will allow that. (EDIT: That I know of)You might try this Unsanity haxie. It looks like it will do what you want.
-mj
[email protected]
Message was edited by: macjack

ACL's and color labels...

The short version: I setup some ACL stuff (that I don't really understand) in order to share some files that previously belonged to only one user. Now I can't change the color labels in Finder.
The long version:
I share an iMac at work and recently decided to create my own account to keep my settings separate from the other person's. I tried moving our projects folder, managed fonts folder, iPhoto library, etc. into the Shared user folder, but iPhoto wasn't having it. The original account was fine with the change, but my new account was locked out. So, I found a little tutorial online (link below) about sharing the iPhoto library in the Shared user folder with some Access Control List (ACL) stuff. Anyway, I have everything running smoothly, but I can't seem to change the color labels in Finder. I control+click the folder and all the color label options are "grayed" out; I can't click on them. I was able to set a color label to a new folder, but I can't remove or change the label on an old folder.
Here's the command I used, followed by a link to the complete tutorial I used:
sudo chmod +a "UserName allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,\
addsubdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directoryinherit" \
/Users/Shared/iPhoto\ Library
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050904072808460&lsrc=osxh
So.... what's going on and how do I fix it? ; )
Oh yeah, the iMac is a 2 GHz Intel Core Duo with Mac OS X 10.4.11
Message was edited by: Iynque

you need to expand that command a little.
Try this one
*sudo chmod -R +a "staff allow list,addfile,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr, writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directoryinherit" path/to/folder*
as before, instead of path/to/folder put the path to the folder you are doing this to.

How to "Highlight/Color Label" a single event in Month View.

Hi.
How do i either Hightlight or Color Label a single event or a single calendar in Month View? Like the pic shows, the one on the right...
Thank you for your time.

Never Mind... Thank you though..
It's an all day event...

Can not color label more than one file at a time

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I've had this problem since 10.6.6-ish, i can not color label more than one file at a time in the Finder.
Wether i select two, twenty or twohundred only one file gets color labeled.
It doesn't seem to matter if i assign a color label through the File menu or right click > label.
Figured a re-install might fix this but it hasn't (even a clean install without restoring any kind of backup).
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Thanks,
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Aaaaanyone ?

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