color and folder labels

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color and folder labels

#1 Post by giudansky » 31.05.2023, 11:00

I really would like to color folders and files: the icon, the filebrowser row, or a label near the name.
and a shortcut to do so and a filter .

Any plan ?


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Re: color and folder labels

#2 Post by Forez » 03.06.2023, 14:08

On an item-by-item basis?

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Re: color and folder labels

#3 Post by giudansky » 09.06.2023, 09:30

Yes item-by-item.
This is useful for workflow, so I can color files and folder and using this sort of tagging to empathises the daily tasks things.
And then filtering by color would be awesome so we can concentrate on the files you really need.

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Re: color and folder labels

#4 Post by Forez » 09.06.2023, 11:08

I never have thought of such feature

I relay on pinned Tabs for marking things to do - but an ability to mark items could speed up workflow, by singling out for attention just the right items

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Re: color and folder labels

#5 Post by giudansky » 14.06.2023, 20:25

Exactly.
Not sure this is possible. Each folder/files are gonna have their own color/selecting file config. Maybe its going to be a resource consuming feature? Is this going to conflict with os?

Only dev can say. I would love it, especially for image or document archives managing

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#6 Post by Marek » 14.06.2023, 20:58

A lot is possible, but whether it makes sense.
You have millions of files and folders, it wouldn't work without a database. The display would then also be much slower.
Have you checked "Items color"?

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Re: color and folder labels

#7 Post by giudansky » 14.06.2023, 22:41

Yes it's close to it, I love the "color by date", in that way we can highlight recent files/folder not older than...
But Cant select or highlight custom specific folders/files sets

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Re: color and folder labels

#8 Post by Dreamer » 14.06.2023, 22:58

I think you don't want to set different color for thousand different files, right? It would be even impossible.

Perhaps you could try the file containers, you can copy files and folders as virtual items there and you can create multiple file container tabs with custom tab colors.

https://freecommander.com/fchelpxe/en/F ... ainer.html

Files and folders would stay in their original location.

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Re: color and folder labels

#9 Post by giudansky » 15.06.2023, 08:51

File containers... yes thats definitely something !

Not sexy as a color tagging but I'll use them

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Re: color and folder labels

#10 Post by Dreamer » 15.06.2023, 19:24

Just create non-temporary file containers, otherwise they will be deleted on program exit.

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