Unable to customize individual folder colors on macOS 26 Tahoe with Mac Studio 2022 M1 Max

well you should have showed the right click photo earlier.

I am quite assured, you are not using tag colours on your Mac,.. cause I didn't earlier

go to

finder menu > settings > tags > assign/ add different colour tags

and

important- drag them down in your favourite tag section and

you are good to go for customising folders.

Try while in Safe Mode.

Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

FWIW, that's why I suggested trying while in Safe Mode, so Dropbox doesn't load.

It looks like dropbox or whatever those icons are at the bottom has rebuilt that contextual menu and is probably not doing it correctly.

centgeri wrote:

Running MacOS 26 Tahoe on Studio Mac 2022 M1 Max and unable to customize folders. Can anyone help

I would like to customize color and icon for folders but unable to do so when right-clicking folder. Is there a workaround for this? I can change all colors but unable to customize individually because the customize option does not appear when right-clicking.

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See >System Setting> Appearance (?) make some changes and compare your results.

Control click— test

no resolve, shut down and restart the machine

>Shut Down

or try Relaunching Finder on the fly >Force Quit>Finder >Relaunch

centgeri wrote:

I do think this is a Dropbox issue - I contacted Dropbox support and here is their reply:

Thank you for the confirmation. Unfortunately, there is no workaround at this time, however, I am more than happy to pass this along to our developer team, to have this considered for future implementation.

They inappropriately modified a macOS menu they do not control and they might consider it for a future implementation? I sure hope their product is so good you can live with them hacking the OS and breaking functionality.

centgeri wrote:

I tried all suggestions I received here and that I found online. I tried starting in safe mode, relaunching Finder, quitting Dropbox, uninstalling dropbox. No success. I am able to change the color of ALL folders through the System Settings>Appearance>Theme and I can also individually change a folder icon if I right click, using Get Info and Copy and Paste an image to the image in the upper left corner. I was hoping to have the easy method of customizing through the drop down right-click menu. I do think it has something to do with Dropbox, but that's what I'm using for my cloud storage.

hmmm...

I use drop box and I have no issue with Customize Folder in the contextual menu for changing folder color on my Mac.

I will say I don't do any kind automatic sync or backup outside of the normal, manually adding items or opening drop box in Finder sidebar.

Works for me:

Hold a Right-click on the folder -> Customize Folder appears under the Tag Color Dots -> do not let go of the Right-click

Drag the cursor over Customize Folder - it will turn blue -> click on it

At the top, choose & click on a colored dot -> Folder color changes

This does not work on an already created Alias Folder.

But, creating a new Alias Folder will duplicate the color of the original.

Hope this helps!

tokyozman65 wrote:

Were you able to resolve the issue with the suggestions from other sites? I'm at a loss as to how to get the "mythical" Customize Folder menu selection to appear.

What do you see when you control-click on a folder in Finder?

This is what I see:

I'm having the same issue - the customize option does not appear in iCloud folders (which dropbox shouldn't impact) nor regular desktop folders. * Image is from an icloud folder. My menu looks the same except I don't have the DB extensions and have +1 option for an attached optical drive.

If you do find a soluton please share.

*edit - interestingly enough my Macbook M4 Pro (26.0) - does show the options with dropbox installed. image above is from a Mac Studio M1 Ultra (26.0.1), surely this feature isn't hardware locked in some way...

Seems to be working here when I right-click on a folder and choose "Customize Folder…"