Greetings Opi
Consider the many specific folder label assignments in the screenshot
I was expecting to find them defined in
Preferences > Labels > Label Assignments > In Specific Folders
As shown.
But I don't see them.
What am I missing?
Gratitude.....
Label Assignments is showing you labels which have been assigned to folders (and wildcards, etc. if there are any).
In Specific Folders is showing a list of folders where, when you're inside a given folder, extra labels get applied to things that don't apply everywhere else.
For example, you might want to highlight .exe files in your downloads directory, but not everywhere else. Or you might want to highlight using a filter which would be very slow in some directories but you know would be fast to calculate in the only place you need it (e.g. it might test on file content, which would have terrible performance in a large folder but would be fine in a folder of small text files).
Thanks Leo.
The following to aid my understanding (which is lacking currently)
Consider that I navigate as per the left hand side:
Prefs > Labels > Label Assignments > In Specific Folders > Add Folder >
Select the folder of interest
From the resulting dialog can I then add one of my Label Definitions (right hand side) to this folder?
If you're trying to change the color/label that folder appears with, you want the page above that. (Or simply assign the label from the file display, without going into Preferences at all.)
If you're trying to change the colors of things within that folder, you have to define which things (e.g. *.exe files), and when you do that you can also say what color/label you want them to have.
Understood thanks. I am not trying to do this
Consider the process below
- Prefs > Labels > Label Assignments > New > Folder Label
- Select Test Folder > Assign aORangeYellow label > Ok
- Test folder show shows up under "Folder Paths" showing the applied label. Ok to exit.
- From within a lister now navigate to the parent of the test folder.
Test folder is labelled with our gaudy "aORangeYellow" label. - RHS click the test folder
Navigate the context menu
Set Colour > Reset - Test folder shows label remvoed as you would expect.
- Return to
Prefs > Labels > Label Assignments > New > Folder Label
Test folder has disappeared
Now I understand all the above is consistent and useful.
I assigned a label via Prefs and reset it via context menu and everything worked as I think it should.
So with all that understood I can now I think pose my question in a way that makes sense 
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I have many folders with, if you like, statically assigned labels such as those shown in the lister below. But they do not show up here:
Prefs > Labels > Label Assignments > Folder Paths
Should they?
No, the information is stored in the file system. For non-NTFS drives, it is saved in /dopusdata\ConfigFiles.
@Ixp thanks
I went looking there specifically in the foldercolors.oxc file.
I found no folder specific entries though.
Also you may notice that if I apply a label via preferences (instead of contect menu) then the corresponding entry shows up and remains in prefs until/unless I remove that same label.
Also I do have a standard windows drive with NTFS.
Given the above should these entries appear in prefs?
Much appreciate answers as always
Since your drive is NTFS, then it is stored in the filesystem (for the files/folders you added the label via context menu).
No list is stored in Opus.
You can try and find them with an Opus search but it will return all files & folders that have a label. I don't know how to separate the ones that have a label assigned by context menu from the ones having a label assigned via the preferences.
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Thanks @PassThePeas
Is this how you would find them?
F3 > Search Panel > Advanced Search > Specify a Label Criteria?
I searched the folder shown in my screenshots above where as you can see there are many labelled folders. Got no hits.
You haven't specified a label to search for. Click where it says Select label in your screenshot.
Exactly. And if you want them all, enter * as label and tick Use wildcards