10.6 color sidebar icons in yosemite PLEASE!

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10.6 color sidebar icons in yosemite PLEASE!

ive been trying to figure this out, replacing the coretypes.bundle's resource files is not working...

do i have to use mySIMBL and colorfulsidebar 9 and disable System integrity protection? in yosemite works?

someone please help... any knowledge useful.

the sidebar icons have an icns at 18pixels, yet terminal will not convert my 18px png to an icns, nothing happens, says damaged maybe. so ive only been able to put the other sidebar sizes inside.

WHY, APPLE?!?!

ur just running off steve jobs' fumes. it's so sad. trying to seem cool by doing less, having gray sidebar icons, "yet people still like us", that can end soon.

Posted on Feb 10, 2019 7:06 PM

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Eau Rouge

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Feb 11, 2019 6:36 PM in response to fenkoff

So are you wanting to replace the Apple default sidebar icons with the sidebar icons from pre OS X 10.8.

This may work. Firstly disable the colourfulsidebaricons9 in the /SIMBL/Plugins folder first, i.e trash it.

And Restart to make sure the default grey icons are now showing.

You would need to replace the ones in Core Types Bundle> Resources with those of the earlier OS.

For them to take you then need to locate the com.dock.iconcache and also the folder com.apple.iconservices and delete them.

Restart your mac, these two files will be regenerated and the new coloured sidebar icons should show. The location of the file and folder mentioned above are by default hidden, so you will need to reveal hidden items, if not already done so. Or you could use the Go To Folder function in Finder and enter /private/var/folders, press Go. This will show the location with a further three folders. I do not have Yosemite installed so cannot give you the exact name of the folders to look in, but, for me, I am on El Capitan at the moment, if you look in the top folder, there is another folder with a random name of letters and numbers, in that folder there are another three folders named O. C and T, look in C and you should see the two items mentioned earlier.

SIP will need to be disabled.

Apple do not take part in these communities, and as Yosemite is an old OS (it no longer receives updates) Apple are highly unlikely to implement coloured icons to an operating system they do not actively support. If they were to relent then it would only be to the next or future OS's.

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Eric Root

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Feb 11, 2019 10:42 AM in response to fenkoff

You can also look at this program to see if it will do what you want.

Finder Replacement - XtraFinder

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Eric Root

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Feb 11, 2019 11:28 AM in response to fenkoff

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

If you want to, you can send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

Click here to send Feedback

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fenkoff Author

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Feb 12, 2019 11:34 AM in response to Eau Rouge

i think because I'm in Yosemite my com.apple.iconservices file is in a different folder - I had been using this command to delete it (which maybe came from someone not on Yosemite?) and it wasnt finding anything. I finally just searched it in 'Find Any File' and deleted it .... about to restart now.

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fenkoff Author

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Feb 12, 2019 11:38 AM in response to Eau Rouge

yeah it didnt work...

theres a com.apple.iconservices.store folder with a red minus sign... been told i should delete that or rename it or move it or something.

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fenkoff Author

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Feb 11, 2019 11:26 AM in response to Eau Rouge

thanks for that step by step. ill probably go ahead trying this anyway- but:

do you know if it works on yosemite?

do i have to have System Integrity Protection disabled for the install?

are the icons colorfulsidebar9 uses replaceable– can I feed it my own? (can i just replace .icns's or do i have to do some .plist file editing or something?) in case they use icons other than the 0S X ones before 10.8

and... what do you mean Apple's not here?

me venting: i'm aware the chances of them seeing this post are minute, but if enough people say something maybe it could change something... it doesn't hurt me to do it. there's absolutely no reason why the sidebar icons should be gray or at least without option to color. they think more like a fashion company now than a computer company.

thanks

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fenkoff Author

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Feb 11, 2019 11:30 AM in response to Eric Root

from XtraFinder's site I can't tell if they do the colored sidebar, their features dont list it. or they probably do non-standard colored icons and i don't know if i can change them. ill ask on here https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/42067/xtrafinder/reviews

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fenkoff Author

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Feb 11, 2019 11:38 PM in response to Eau Rouge

hey wow, -now actually ive already tried this, but the whole disabling of system integrity I never did. ... do i need mySIMBL at all? i shouldnt... id like to uninstall it altogether. i got that far into coretypes if u saw my whole 18px problem. ill try and post how it goes.

those caches ive done too, but iconservices pops back quickly? ill yeah try again. Find Any File is good for searching hidden files.

i dont expect them to fix yosemite— just future OS’s.

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fenkoff Author

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Feb 12, 2019 11:44 AM in response to fenkoff

Ah--- because I'm deleting com.apple.iconservices manually and not using the terminal rm -rf or whatever command, all the processes arent being quit- so when i try empty trash they are saying IN USE. I have to do it through terminal in order to kill the processes and everything, im guessing.

what is the terminal command thats something like rm - rf and how do i order it?

or should i do force empty trash?

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fenkoff Author

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Feb 10, 2019 7:18 PM in response to fenkoff

this is as far as ive gotten... see how the Home and Applications icons in sidebar are different? theyre like gray silhouettes of the colored versions... does this run deeper into the system?

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Eric Root

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Feb 11, 2019 11:36 AM in response to fenkoff

If you decide to download it, I would use the link I posted rather than downloading it from macupdate.com.

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fenkoff Author

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Feb 11, 2019 12:03 PM in response to Eau Rouge

I installed mySIMBL and got sidebars running, and as I feared: They use bad icons... (why not just use apple's standard icons?) so annoying. I'll try XtraFinder

^colorfulsidebar9^

^OS X before 10.8^

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Eau Rouge

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Feb 11, 2019 11:57 PM in response to fenkoff

You don't need mySIMBL if you want to try this method.

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fenkoff Author

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Feb 12, 2019 11:49 AM in response to Eau Rouge

btw did you not read my first post? i say that i already replaced the icons in the coretypes resource folder

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Eau Rouge

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Feb 10, 2019 11:40 PM in response to fenkoff

First of all Apple is not here, so no point pleading with them, and they are very unlikely to do anything about this.

Just use mySIMBL, https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL scroll down the page to the Installation section.

Once downloaded move the mySIMBL.app to the Applications folder. Open the app and then click on Discover in the apps sidebar, scroll down to colorfulSidebar9, click on the arrow on the right. On the next screen click on Get. Now open the

/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/PlugIns to make sure the colorfulSidebar9.bundle has installed. If it has then restart your mac and the icons in the sidebar should now be coloured.

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