Editing Label (Mac OS) (section)

In [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[Macintosh operating systems]], '''labels''' are a type of seven distinct colored and named parameters of [[metadata]] that can be attributed to items (files, folders and disks) in the [[filesystem]].<ref name=Poole-p11>{{cite book |last=Poole |first=Lon |date=1991 |chapter=Item labels |title=[[Macworld]] guide to System 7 |location=San Mateo, Calif. |publisher=[[IDG Books]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/macworldguidetos0000pool/page/11 11–12] |isbn=1878058169 |oclc=29876799 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/macworldguidetos0000pool/page/11 |chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref> Labels were introduced in Macintosh [[System 7]], released in 1991,<ref name=Poole-p97>{{cite book |last=Poole |first=Lon |date=1991 |chapter=Labeling items |title=[[Macworld]] guide to System 7 |location=San Mateo, Calif. |publisher=[[IDG Books]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/macworldguidetos0000pool/page/97 97–100] |isbn=1878058169 |oclc=29876799 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/macworldguidetos0000pool/page/97 |chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref> and they were an improvement of the ability to colorize items in earlier versions of the [[Finder (software)|Finder]].<ref name=Poole-p11/> Labels remained a feature of the Macintosh operating system through the end of [[Mac OS 9]] in late 2001, but they were omitted from [[Mac OS X]] versions 10.0 to 10.2,<ref>{{cite news |last=Pogue |first=David |author-link=David Pogue |date=29 March 2001 |title=State of the art: A new face (and heart) for the Mac |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=G1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/technology/state-of-the-art-a-new-face-and-heart-for-the-mac.html |quote=You'll really miss only a handful of discarded Mac OS 9 features, like the Labels menu (for quickly categorizing your files)&nbsp;...}}</ref> before being reintroduced in version 10.3 in 2003,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Snell |first=Jason |author-link=Jason Snell (writer) |date=May 2021 |title=From Aqua to Catalina: the evolution of Mac OS X |magazine=[[Macworld]] |volume=38 |issue=5 |pages=62–71 |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/340395/from-aqua-to-catalina-the-evolution-of-the-mac-os-x-operating-system.html |quote=Mac OS X 10.3 Panther: Arrived in the fall of 2003, Panther integrated Apple-branded cloud storage support for the first time, via iDisk. The Finder added a sidebar, which is a handy place to store familiar folders to this day, and colored labels for files.}}</ref> though not without criticism.<ref name=Siracusa2003>{{cite web |last=Siracusa |first=John |date=9 November 2003 |title=Mac OS X 10.3 Panther: The Ars Technica Review: Labels |url=https://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2003/11/macosx-10-3.ars/9#finder-labels |website=arstechnica.com |publisher=[[Ars Technica]] |access-date=8 October 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525095432/https://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2003/11/macosx-10-3.ars/9#finder-labels |archive-date=25 May 2009}}</ref> During the short time period when Mac OS X lacked labels, third-party software replicated the feature.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Landau |first=Ted |date=July 2002 |title=Mac Software Bargains: XRay 1.0 |magazine=[[Macworld]] |volume=19 |issue=7 |page=63 |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/151073/bargain.html |quote=XRay can also create Unix symbolic links and assign colored labels to files (an OS 9 feature not included in OS X).}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Cohen |first=Peter |date=9 October 2002 |title=Labels X adds color-coding to OS X files |website=[[Macworld]] |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/151073/bargain.html |quote=Miss being able to color-code your files like you could in Mac OS 9? Unsanity LLC has released a new OS X 'haxie' called Labels X 1.0. The software enables you to add various color tints to file icons, adding the ability to sort the files by label as well (it adds a 'Label' column to the Finder list view).}}</ref>