No colour dots to tag folders. Macbook Pro, OSX 10.10.3

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  •  07-10-2020
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Question

I have just recently bought a used Macbook Pro with Yosemite installed. So far everything seemed to work ok, except today I tried to tag a folder with the coloured dot and found it not possible. The dots are there, but they have no colour. This doesn't look right and I haven't seen anything like this before. Has anyone encountered anything like that? I would greatly appreciate your help?

Please check the screenshot attached below.

context menu of a random test folder

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Solution

Probably the color tags have been disabled previously or some non-color tags are enabled instead. Just open Finder -> Preferences -> Tags and enable all color tags and all non-color tags you need.

OTHER TIPS

I can tag files, but when I click on a tag in the side bar, no files are shown. This worked up until recently. I did have to remove a bunch of Safari-related files to fix a problem with bookmarks; must have broken tags somehow.

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