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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar Desktop
I've been looking for something like this for a while, but couldn't manage to find anything, so I whipped something up myself. I really like the sidebar of the new Finder, but since there aren't any separators you can put in, it's hard to have things like sub-categories of the "Places" section, especially if you've got something like a second Applications folder.

Inspired by all the dock separator packs that are floating around, I mocked up a bunch of fake applications with line-drawing characters as their name, gave them a completely transparent icon, and then put those fake apps in the sidebar as separators.

I've gone ahead and packaged up a bunch of separators, and they can be downloaded from my site.
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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: deef on Jan 03, '08 08:32:47AM

These work in 10.4 as well, but the colors don't show up.



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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: Fofer on Jan 03, '08 04:39:53PM
Don't forget this hack to add in invisible spacers:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071115133729552


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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: Fofer on Jan 03, '08 04:41:20PM

...to the dock, that is. I read this hint a bit too quickly and didn't realize the distinction at first.



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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: msadesign on Jan 04, '08 04:59:30AM

Hot damn! I love the sidebar but without the ability to at least color the folders it is pretty confusing. This is a great solution [not sure why you named all the lines with '.app', though]



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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: lygaret on Jan 04, '08 08:44:33AM

Glad it's helpful :)

The '.app' is so that the Finder doesn't open the folder when the spacer is accidentally clicked. I'm sort of fat fingered with the mouse, and I'd much rather have a dialog pop up saying it can't open the application instead of it changing the Finder's location.



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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: albyrw on Jan 04, '08 06:58:38AM

Terrific hint! Thanks for that, clean and functional solution.



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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: Serj on Jan 05, '08 07:20:15AM

This is good ! Very good ! Thanks !



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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: bdog on Jan 09, '08 02:47:07PM
Here is my enhanced version. Enjoy!

BDog's SideBar Separators 1.0

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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: hasseg on Jan 11, '08 02:50:04AM

This is very nice. The only problem I encountered was the fact that I got an error message about the application not supporting the current architecture whenever I'd click one of the separators. I Fixed this by replacing the separator mock applications with ones that run in the background, do nothing, and then exit.

Get my slightly modified version from here.

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10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: Brad Puett on Jan 12, '08 04:45:10PM
10.5: Create separators for the Finder's sidebar
Authored by: snowlep1 on Apr 09, '12 09:14:06AM

Does anyone have these anymore, none of the old links work? I had them but just did a mac cleanup and have now lost them :(



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