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Folderol FAQ: How do I delete color swatches?

Victor writes: “How do you remove color swatches from the swatch collection.”

Do you mean the ones in the system color picker? These?
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If so, follow these steps:

Click on the color picker tool (the dropper icon) and drag it to an empty square. Use the dropper to  “sample” the square

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This  sample replaces the current color with “empty”
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Now drag the “empty” color on top of any swatch you want to delete
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Boom, it’s gone:
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Folderol FAQ #3: Avoiding color blending

Kent writes:

Just purchased folderol (v 1.9). I’m having a dilemma when adding custom images. Sometimes it blends the custom image into the blue color of the folder which changes the color of the image. Other times it doesn’t. I’d like to say I’ve figured out a pattern but I haven’t.

Answer:

I don’t have examples to look at so it’s a little hard to diagnose. The active color is always blended to the image unless you choose to remove the active color or choose the do-not-blend option. 

Avoiding Hues: Once you clear the color, you’ll see a checked board background. Now when you add a custom image and drop a folder, the image will not blend with a hue.

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Avoiding Image Blends. There’s also a further option called Don’t blend image to icon. When you enable this, the image will replace the folder instead of blend with it.

Here’s what all these options look like:

Original folder: 

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Blended with image (normal, no tint selected)

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Blended with image (pink/red tint selected)

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Do not blend option enabled (no blend with original folder art or the folder’s blue tint)

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Folderol FAQs #1: Does it work with Dropbox?

Screen Shot 2014-05-21 at 4.46.47 PMFreddy writes:

The color disappears when I move the folder to Dropbox. Any solution to prevent that? It seems to work sometimes now, about every second time I add a folder to Dropbox. Another problem is that the folder doesn’t appear colored anymore if I am reading it in Dropbox from another of my Macs. Do Folderol need to be installed on every computer to have it work?

Answer:

The color should work on-your mac. It may not sync between macs. Dropbox’s folder icon sync problem is apparently longstanding.

More than you want to know:

The “dot” is specific to OS X Mavericks and will not be synced by Dropbox as it is part of the file metadata. You can see it from the command line by running “mdls”, e.g.

 mdls -name kMDItemUserTags /path/to/your/folder

 The icon is actually an invisible file inside the folder, placed there by the OS X workspace. You can see hidden files by running the two following lines in a terminal session:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

And to return the hidden files back to invisible:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder