Status icon without affecting sorting of the Label column

I'd like to have a little read-only icon indicator, so there is a read-only Label in the "Status" category, so my "Status" column shows those icons
Good

But I don't want this to affect sorting in the Label column, so I've unticked Preferences / Labels / Label Definitions / Show in Label column, but that didn't help

I've also tried to enter empty text in the label name, but couldn't
Not so good

Is there a way to achieve this:

  • show status icon
  • do not sort by the label for that status rule

Maybe have a "pure status" category that has no labels?

there might be more than one way to achieve this, thou i have a similar label set up for read only files on a particular media drive.

it took me a while to figure this out myself, it was driving me crazy when trying to edit tag through my music player, it would give an error if a file or folder was Read Only.

I used Dopus to highlight this attribute making them easier to find and change by making a Filter Label Assignment which points to your Label Definition

it's a two part process

  1. create the label definition

  2. create the Label Assignments

Preferences / Labels / Label Assignments

or in my case i have this set up on a single drive so my screen shots are from

Preferences / Labels / Label Assignments / In Specific Folders

from Label Assignments
select New > Filter Label
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add a new Clause selecting Attributes from the drop, tick the R attr, select your pre-defined label in the drop on the upper right.

then in the lister display I'm seeing this...

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furthermore it seems i can add other status icons\label which will be reelected in the label column, its still not showing my "read only auto label"

You have sorting by Label disabled, so you don't see the issue
Try to enable it and create a non-read-only file named M1, it will be sorted AFTER Mrs

I'm using sorting by labels for other purposes, for read-only I don't need any sorting, just an extra visual indicator

ahh, gotcha, with this label i just want to see them so i can change them. have not tried sorting

In 13.8.1 we'll change the Label column to ignore hidden labels when sorting.

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