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10.7: Get colored sidebar icons in Finder
If you reboot, or logout, then you have to restart Finder once logged in to get the colored icons back. I solved this by adding a plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/. You can name the plist anything you like. I went with 'com.example.color.sidebar.plist'. Here's the plist:
10.7: Get colored sidebar icons in Finder
I like the plist, but it is a pain to use because it closes the two Finder windows that I normally have open. ---
Dah•veed |David Allen| Monterrey, NL, Mexico
10.7: Get colored sidebar icons in Finder
And manually restarting Finder doesn't?
10.7: Get colored sidebar icons in Finder
Relaunching Finder from Force Quit in the Apple menu does not close my Finder windows. I tried to make an Automator app to do it from Force Quit but was unsuccessful. ---
Dah•veed |David Allen| Monterrey, NL, Mexico
10.7: Get colored sidebar icons in Finder
It's better to quit an application normally, not force-quitting it. You can do it two ways for the Finder:
10.7: Get colored sidebar icons in Finder
jsumners, could you provide a bit of information about this solution? Installing the plist: I assume I save that text in a plain text file? Activating it: do I do anything to activate it, or does it run automatically on restart? Thanks in advance!
10.7: Get colored sidebar icons in Finder
It is a plain text document with the ".plist" extension. The launchd agent will process any valid plists in ~/Library/LaunchAgents whenever launchd runs. That is, you don't have to do anything. Just put the file in place and the next time you login, and subsequent logins, it will be run.
10.7: Get colored sidebar icons in Finder
My problem solved as follows:
10.7: Get colored sidebar icons in Finder
The preference file didn't work for me when I put it in my ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ folder but it did when I moved it to my HD/Library/LaunchAgents/ folder. There is worked as advertised with no problems at all. |
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