How to highlight a whole filename or folder in maverics?
Just bought a new mac with Maverics and migrated. Problem is that I have a lot of folders with one important file and lots of supporting files. In snowleopard the whole filename could be coloured to make it really obvious which one I need to double click on (say the LateX source or OmniGraffle main source file etc) Now all I see is a little dot on the right, and since some filenames are quite long the dots are often a long way separate from the names on the left. I cant find a preference to change it back to highliting the whole filename - help! it is driving me nuts.
Couple of points. Mavericks introduces tags style, and not label style that we have been accustomed too with prior Mac OS releases. It is all you get. There is no other way to revert to the old label style, short of a third-party application that replaces the Apple Finder. I would not recommend that solution.
Now, about that tag on the right side of your filesystem objects. This is fixable in the Finder menu > View > Show View Options panel (command+J). Underneath the Text size adjustment, you have Label positions for bottom and right. Set yours to bottom and the tag will now appear to the left of the filesystem object.
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Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Aug 9, 2011 9:30 AMAny ideas on what would cause this NOT to work? I added this row right after the table is created and populated and it is still not highlighted when I enter the form. The snippet of code that does this is:
MyTableModel modelS = (MyTableModel)dataModel.get("S");
jTable1 = new JTable(modelS);
jTable1.setRowSelectionInterval(0,0);MyTableModel is this:
class MyTableModel extends DefaultTableModel {
public MyTableModel(Object[] columnNames, int numRows) {
super(columnNames, numRows);
public boolean isCellEditable(int row, int column) {
if (TableKey == 'S') {
if (column == 6) {
return false;
if (TableKey == 'O') {
if (column == 0 || column == 4 || column == 5) {
return false;
if (TableKey == 'P') {
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How to highlight the entire folder with the tag color, as before?
I've always highlighted important folders with colors, so that they stand out among others in a list for quicker access. Now in Mavericks list view, there is only a small color dot to the right of the folder's name (sometimes very far from the folder's name if the column is large). As a result, it is much harder to pick important folders. Is there any way to apply the tag color to the whole folder, as it used to be in all previous systems? Or at the very least, to move the dot to the left of the folder name within lists, as in Icon view? I really hope Apple did not remove this feature simply for the sake of design. Thanks.
mistersquid, S. G. is actually referring to the new Tags feature in Mavericks. This replaces entirely the Labels feature in previous versions of the OS, as far as I can tell.
Labels would let you apply a color highlight to a folder. It would appear as a color behind the entire row.
With Mavericks, however, Labels are gone and are replaced with Tags, which just puts a small colored dot off to the right of the folder name (and it's always like this, not just when you click on the folder), and some of these aren't distinct enough from one another (i.e. purple and gray look almost identical if you're scrolling through a series of "gray" folders pretty quickly—you may miss that one purple dot). Also, like S. G. mentioned, these can be pretty far off in your periphery if you've got long folder names, so this just adds another level of "hard-to-see-ness" (it's a technical term ).
I'm a graphic designer and I have been using Labels to colorize my job folders according to their current status. For example:
No label = job is open/in progress.
The next color schemes were more of a "stop light" effect, going from red to green:
Red = job is approved. Prep final files and send to printer/client.
Yellow = job is done. Prepare job ticket/calculate time for billing.
Green = job is done and job ticket is ready to go (hence the green color) to my co-worker for billing/invoicing.
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I agree with S. G. and would love to see a stronger means of identifying the status of a project at a glance reappear—perhaps as a selectable alternative to Tags in the Finder preferences (because I can definitely see how the two means of colorizing a folder could compete with one another), like a checkbox to the effect of "Use Labels instead of Tags," similar to the "Open folders in tabs instead of new windows" option.
Feedback submitted. Thanks, yodathejedi, for the link.
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how can i allow these character in folder or file name.
waitingHello to everybody
It's ok for the ~ " # % & * : < > ? / \ { | } characters, they cannot be allowed,
but in a lot of languages there are letters like è é à ù ò that are accepted for path and/or filename;
how to allow these characters? Moss indexes them but when doing some searches and clicking on these files, in the new internet explorer windows the file cannot be opened abd examining the url the è é à ù ò are replaced with other character.
Thanks in advance to everybody
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I have moved my library to an external hard drive and changed the location of the iTunes media folder in Preferences, but every time I close and re-open iTunes, I have to do it all over again. How can I make the iTunes media folder change permanent? I have an older machine with Windows XP.
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Try this:
Prepare iTunes so that it can see the external drive.
Make a note of which drive-letter the external drive has been allocated. (Look in Windows Exploer)
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Close and shut down the computer.
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Once you can, start iTunes. (If the drive lettter has changed, you need to work out why before going any further.)
If iTunes fails to find your external drive, you need to check where iTunes is looking for your Library.
Select the same song you checked before (presumably iTunes can no longer find it). Follow the procedure for locating it. You should be able to see where iTunes thinks the file is. It's the drive that counts. Which drive letter is iTunes looking at? Is it the same one that it was previously (which should also be the same one that the drive has now).
What happens, which step do you have problems with?
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How to zip a whole catalog with Java?
can you tell me how to zip a whole catalog?
i am not able to find a method that can zip a whole catalog and the files in it.
please help me,thanksThe following program is an extension of the code posted at:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=31&thread=48084
import java.io.File;
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import java.io.FileOutputStream ;
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fileinputstream.close();
catch (Exception e) {
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zipentry.setSize(file.length());
zipentry.setTime(file.lastModified());
zipentry.setCrc(crc32.getValue());
//Write Data
try {
zipoutputstream.putNextEntry(zipentry);
fileinputstream = new FileInputStream(file);
while ((n = fileinputstream.read(rgb)) > -1) {
zipoutputstream.write(rgb, 0, n);
fileinputstream.close();
zipoutputstream.closeEntry();
catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Error in writing data:");
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How to integrate a whole-house user setup
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You don't need to add another computer in all this. Put the files on some central drive and share media off there using multiple libraries on each computer -- that's pretty much what you are doing now anyway. You might be able to piggy-back your current drive onto a Time Capsule or similar. The main issue will be transferring files to the drive without breaking links in existing libraries. They may be ways to facilitate that so they can be repaired easily. For that matter, as long as the present external drive remains unchanged then iTunes may not even notice it is connected differently and you'e up and running in no time.
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iTunes 11 for Mac: Change where your iTunes files are stored - http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12165 - more information at: https://discussions.apple.com/message/22026652 - and steps 5-8 in https://discussions.apple.com/message/24491967
iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449
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Action that finds specified words and highlight the whole sentence or paragraph
Hi All,
I know a action file from Acrobat users group (http://acrobatusers.com/content/find-highlight-words-and-phrases) which find and highlight a set of words using Acrobat action. But, is this possible to modify the javascript to select and highlight the "whole sentence" of the word selected? I have no knowledge about javascript, but hope I can learn how to search a word and grab the sentence or even the paragraph that a selected word appears in!
Thanks a lot for all your help.
I copied the said javascript in below:
/ Highlight Color
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mrstrong98,
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b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. -
Can't figure how to select a whole album to upload to Flickr. If I select all the photos in an album, the photos upload but not my titles.
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How do I default whole website to HTTPS rather than HTTP?
I imagine there is a setting to do in the .htaccess file - not sure what it is...
=== for a test - I tried this INSIDE just the folder to test called 'htest' - but did not work
.htaccess.......
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RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/htest/$1 [R,L]Thanks Rob - that worked great!
ALSO - what if I didn't use the one you sent sent but wanted to just put on 1 folder????
How about for JUST 1 folder?
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