Lion Finder sidebar color?

It worked for me, perhaps because of other third-party software such as Default Folder - not sure... Joe

Solution in thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1197960&page=4

Download:

http://cooviewerzoom.web.fc2.com/colorfulsidebar.html

http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php

Steps:

- Install SIMBL

- Download ColorfulSidebar above

- Put Colorfulsidebar.bundle in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/

- Go into terminal and type "killall Finder"

See instructions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooD4QF68G8s

I made a updated video for Total Finder users as well. The link is at the bottom of the description of the video that was posted.

This worked for me with Total Finder. Thanks for the work. Too bad apple had to make this such a pain.

I was wrong about DesktopUtility (forgetting that one should only make one change at a time). I believe the problem was actually solved by something I did earlier, which is recommended by markusr above, which

I repeat here:

http://cooviewerzoom.web.fc2.com/colorfulsidebar.htmlDownload:

http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php

Steps:

- Install SIMBL

- Download ColorfulSidebar above

- Put Colorfulsidebar.bundle in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/

- Go into terminal and type "killall Finder"

See instructions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooD4QF68G8s

JG

I made two update videos for the video that was previously posted. Update 2 works with TotalFinder as well. Sadly it won't work with Path Finder. It might if you replaced open /Applications/TotalFinder.app with open /Applications/PathFinder.app.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbvZEJC94I

After setting up as suggested by Joe, I would suggest the creation of app using Automator to run the applescripts to kill the finder and reload it again, at each login.

The steps are:

1. Open Automator app from Applications folder.

2. Select the Actions tab and then select "Run Applescript" from the long list of actions.

3. In the right window, copy the following applescript steps and save the app as say "coloricons"

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on run

quit application "Finder"

repeat while application "Finder" is running

delay 0.5

end repeat

launch application "Finder"

end run

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4. Open System Preferences, open Users & Groups and under your user id / log-in items tab - add the "coloricons" app - so that it is excuted at each log-in.

This has worked great for me - both on my iMac desktop and MBP. There is no need for Totalfinder if one is sticking to Finder.

That's bassically what my video I posted earlier was about. It just follows the same steps of creating the bootcoloricon back on page 8, but in stead of typing in open /Applications/TotalFinder.app with open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app. Then you just follow the same steps on page 9 and finally add the script app you made to the login items in Users and Groups.

I would suggest the creation of app using Automator to run the applescripts to kill the finder and reload it again, at each login.

How this is better than creating that app using AppleScript Editor? Automator apps are also much slower than those one created with AppleScript Editor...

Good gosh. I have tried both of these methods and I cannot get them to work. Thank you so much for the videos and the applescripts. In the video versions, I get the applescript saying that they cannot find the applescript although I thought I followed the directions right. I did it 3 times and still nothing. Then on the latest applescript from Bhu Triv, I get the "The action "Run Applescript" encountered an error. Check the actions properites and try running workflow again? I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I have Total Finder and run Lion. I guess I am so NOT a programmer that I won't recognize if I do just one little step wrong.

Hmm, if you want I can post a step by step screenshot.

OH yes. That has got to help! Thank you.

Here you go! This goes for everyone as well and if you haven't go back on page 7 or 8 and that will have the links for SIMBL and the Colorfulicons.bundle you need to make this work.

http://cl.ly/2l3u2h1a2A1A230k3D2a

I hope they aren't too small because I did this on my 13 inch Macbook Pro.

Very nice instructions! Thank you so much. I had a problem though. When I restarted my computer it says this in the bootcoloricon script.app box that appears:

Thr file /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app#!/bin/sh does not exist.

Do you know what I did wrong? I followed your screen shots in detail.

The only thing is that when I get to that one window after the first terminal window, it won't allow we to get rid of the text there (or I dont know how) and just starts typing over it. And the other thing is that I cleaned up a lot of my mistakes and wondering if I accidently got rid of something from the earlier color icon and SIMBL installation.

Create bootcoloricon using a graphic text editor (Text Edit, for example) instead of using pico.

(...you may also be interested in the fully Applescript solution I posted some days ago)