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10.5: Switch the Finder's sidebar labels to lowercase Desktop
10.5 ships with uppercase menu items in the Finder's sidebar, similar to recent versions of iTunes. To make things lowercase like they should be, do the following. First, navigate to (or copy and paste the following into the Go » Go to Folder dialog):

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/

Duplicate the file called LocalizableCore.strings, and keep the duplicate as a backup. Open the original with Xcode or a text editor, then edit lines 50 to 53 to make them lowercase:
"SD5" = "Devices";
"SD6" = "Shared";
"SD7" = "Search for";
"SD8" = "Places";
Save the file (entering your admin password if asked) and log out and back in or open Terminal and type killall Finder to relaunch the Finder and see your changes.

[robg adds: This hint explains how to do the same for iTunes.]
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10.5: Switch the Finder's sidebar labels to lowercase
Authored by: Marc Wolfgram on Nov 09, '07 03:16:52PM

I just looked at Mail and iTunes, and the full UPPERCASE names of the sections appear to be consistent across these applications. Personally, the appeal of UPPERCASE vs. Mixed Case legends is probably a personal preference ... my preference is consistency ... and I don't plan on hacking Mail or iTunes to match a hacked Finder.



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10.5: Switch the Finder's sidebar labels to lowercase
Authored by: table on Nov 09, '07 05:30:29PM

Has someone figured out how to make the sidebar text bigger?

They're way too small at their default size.



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10.5: Switch the Finder's sidebar labels to lowercase
Authored by: sipatel on Nov 09, '07 07:49:32PM

Has anyone found a way of getting rid of the sidebar altogether??



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10.5: Switch the Finder's sidebar labels to lowercase
Authored by: thehigherlife on Nov 10, '07 10:13:06AM

just click on that rectangle with the rounded corners in the upper right hand corner of the window.



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10.5: Switch the Finder's sidebar labels to lowercase
Authored by: philippec on Nov 10, '07 06:08:50AM

This does not seem to work if the replacement text you are putting in has descenders, i.e. characters which draw below the baseline like 'p', 'q' or 'g'. In my case, I replaced "APPAREILS" with "Appareils" and the lower part of the 'pp' was cut off...



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10.5: Switch the Finder's sidebar labels to lowercase
Authored by: 7h31ll3g4l on Nov 24, '07 11:54:24AM

You can make this change with mail.app?
Switch the MAIL sidebar labels to lowercase?

Thank's...

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