How to restore file and folder labels

Apple does it again. File and folder lables gone and little colored dots take their place. Apple at least give users the choice. That's choice, spelled C-H-O-I-C-E!!!

http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
Hopefully that may work on your Mac. NOW, This is a Design/Ease of Use as well as a Efficiency/Workflow issue. I am using an IMac, c 2012 recently upgraded from 10.8.6 to the current version of Mavericks. Please restore Finder labels. Give us a CHOICE. All your young eyes don't see things the way us folks who are 60-something do. I have been using a Mac for 20 years. You removed colored folders before & restored before. Do it AGAIN. This is terrible. & ALSO, why does TextEdit print SO LARGE? It used to reduce the doc to try to fit it in on the paper. Now it makes the same documents PAGES LONG. I can't seem to make it work as before. For God's sake, bring back colored folders. Its not just me. I have time to complain. EVERYBODY I know hates the little colored dots. They do not serve the same purpose as Tags. Even the major professors at FIT NYC, the college I am an adjunct at, for the last 30 years. Why, for the FIRST time in my 18 year relationship to Macs, do I feel compelled to use plug in??? Is that the only way to get my colored folders again??? I hate the way the screen slips to the side also, and windows maximize with the slip of the mouse, also. Get it together Apple!

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