Comments on: Get Personal Folders Back in OS X Lion’s Desktop Window Sidebar

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:42:14 +0000

This really isn’t an issue if you perform a clean install of OS X Lion. If you didn’t, the culprit is Snow Leopard. Leopard and Snow Leopard substituted a few of these folders (Music, Movies and Pictures) with Smart Folders in the “Search For” category of the sidebar. That category was removed in OS X Lion and those folders were put back into the sidebar by default. If you installed Lion on top of Snow Leopard, I assume it doesn’t take this change into account, resulting in only Applications, Desktop and Documents in the sidebar.

By: Jonah Bodah

Jonah Bodah — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:34:43 +0000

Seems simbl isn’t playing nice at all with lion… Are you still using it Paul?

By: Elijah Clark

Elijah Clark — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:16:24 +0000

thanks, been on Lion since day 1, but it still has its problems. thanks for helping solve at least one of them.

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Change the Text & Icon Size of the Mac OS X Lion Finder Window Sidebar — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:44:26 +0000

[...] you’ve been busy customizing the Favorites folders and colorizing the Finder sidebar icons, you might want to change the font and icon size of that [...]

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Five Great Tips: OS X Lion « The Mac Adviser — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:32:09 +0000

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Get Color Sidebar Icons Back in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Finder Windows — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:47:47 +0000

[...] a somewhat related note, you can also bring back the personal folders in your OS X Lion Finder window sidebars. Those icons will gain color again too. [...]

By: lar3ry

lar3ry — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:09:13 +0000

You can also “remove” items from the sidebar by control/right clicking the item to remove and selecting “Remove from sidebar.”

By: Prescott Perez-Fox

Prescott Perez-Fox — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:22:12 +0000

I too miss the coloured icons (badly, in fact). I can’t wait for Apple to fix this bug. That’s right, I called it a bug, not a feature.

As far as the concerns of devices, I too prefer them on top. I got around this by creating shortcuts for the drives and putting them on top. I also added a nameless folder to the list which serves as a divider. Clunky, but gets it done until we can get some kind of spacer.

By: vdiv

vdiv — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:13:13 +0000

You can also drag and drop items from the main window onto the FAVORITES (Lion) or the PLACES (Snow Leopard) category in the Sidebar.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:08:27 +0000

This is great. But I really miss having the icons colored like in Snow Leopard. And I would love to be able to group these together. Devices is now at the bottom, but if I add any custom folders (like Dropbox) they just mix in with the other “Favorites”. I’d love to be able to organize it better by creating a separate section like “Favorites” or “Devices”, but call it something different (or even just a divider line) and have my own set of folders there. Without the color, it makes it a lot more difficult to quickly jump to the right place.