Devise a way to use the color-coding or "labeling" feature of Mac OS to help you recognize the status of files,without the need to open them. Go to file, and pull down to label,and you can assign seven colored labels, plus no label, for a total of eight different labels. You, the user, can assign the color values and the names, if any, associated with the colored labels.
For example: let's say you have a folder holding forty-five days' worth of downloads; after series of folders have been backed up to the back-up drive, you might label them light blue; after they have been burned to a DVD, you could label them dark blue; dark blue folders seen on a DVD disc--that would tell you that the disc contains folders that were ALREADY burned to another disc.
Green folders can be unedited folders; edited folders can be labeled red; choice select files can be labeled as orange files. You can organize and search by color label under Mac OS--this is a huge advantage, since it allows you to characterize files by "property" or "type" or "status", even though the files might be of different types entirely. If you ever run low on hard disk space, you can search for dark blue files--those files, no matter what their name, will already have been backed up AND burned off to CD or DVD discs--meaning they could easily be deleted to make space.
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