The colored label background color/banner won’t display on our 2020 M1 Mac mini (macOS Monterey 12.6.6). I’ve confirmed SIP is disabled and Startup Security is set to Reduced Security. The background color was working inconsistently prior to the latest 12.6.6 update—now it won’t work at all. I’ve killed all TotalFinder processes and relaunched. Uninstalled, reinstalled, running version 1.15.1. Reset TF to defaults, then re-ticked Colored Labels in File Browser settings. And of course relaunched Finder. Anything else I can try to get these banners back? They are the entire reason the user uses TotalFinder. Thanks for any suggestions!
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Hmn, that’s odd. TotalFinder (including the Coloured Labels feature) works fine for me on both 12.6.7 and 12.6.8.
(I also previously tested 12.6.6rc3, though I never got the chance to test it on the final release of 12.6.6.)
Can you try updating to 12.6.7 (which is the current stable version — 12.6.8 is an RC version for developers) and seeing if the issue still persists?
If so, please run the diagnostics script at /Applications/TotalFinder.app/Contents/Resources/diagnose-totalfinder.sh in a Terminal session and send me the resulting file.
Thanks so much for the quick reply! The banners have reappeared on some files; others have the macOS label colored dot but no banner/background color. It may be a week before I have the opportunity to update to 12.6.7, but will follow up as soon as I get the chance.
@MBPG This sounds like a really dumb question, but you are using 1.15.1, right?
The issues you’re experiencing sound like they’re coming from 1.15.0 which indeed did have some behavioural issues regarding Coloured Labels on macOS 13.
If you have confirmed that you are indeed running TotalFinder 1.15.1, please run the below commands in Terminal on:
- A file that only has the native macOS Finder dot but no Coloured Label
- A file that works correctly
And then paste the output here.
※ Doing so will not reveal the contents of the file to me.
xattr -xp "com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags" "PATH_TO_YOUR_FILE"
xattr -xp "com.apple.FinderInfo" "PATH_TO_YOUR_FILE"
※ Tip: You can quickly copy-paste entire file paths into Terminal, or even drag a file into the Terminal window to do the same.
Thanks for the follow-up. OK, we’ve updated to macOS 12.6.7 and the issue remains: inconsistent TF color labels. Yes, we are running TF 1.15.1.
Here is the output from the above commands:
Item with Finder dot but no colored label (a folder on local SSD):
UserTags:
62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 A1 01 55 52 65 64 0A 36
08 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 10
FinderInfo:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Item with TF colored label displayed correctly (a file on server):
UserTags:
62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 A1 01 55 52 65 64 0A 36
08 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 10
FinderInfo:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Note there are also files on the server that have a dot but no colored label. I haven’t found a folder that has both the dot and the colored label (although there aren’t very many folders, all the ones I’ve seen have a dot and no label).
@MBPG Thanks for the info. The results you posted seem… perfectly fine, so I’m just left confused here.
Try running this command in Finder and seeing if anything changes.
touch ~/.totalfinder-alwaysenablenewlabellookupmethods
If your issues persist, please try this as well.
touch ~/.totalfinder-disablelabelcolourlookupoptimisation
(※ These should take effect as soon as the view is updated, so just go up a folder level and then back down or something. Or you can just fully re-launch Finder by holding Alt/Option and right-clicking on the Finder dock icon and selecting “Relaunch”, then opening TotalFinder.app again to re-inject.)