10.7: Set Finder Labels from the keyboard

At one time you could hack the Finder to assign keyboard shortcuts to assign labels to selected files and folders. Then that useful functionality was lost in the course of Mac OS X Finder development. Hope glimmered briefly with hints such as this:


Create a keyboard-shortcut for Show Package Contents
and:
10.5: Add a Show Package Contents keyboard shortcut

But inspiration struck with this hint about adding the Labels button to the Finder toolbar:
10.7: Set Label toolbar icon to your choice of colors

So here's how you too can be keystrokes away from color-coding your Finder's files and folders as much as you wish:

• Add the Label button to the Finder toolbar. Not sure how? In the Finder select View » ...

Source: http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=986eff14c44b0ab5374c38282e637406

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