Lion Finder sidebar color?

You are most welcome.

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Not sure if anyone has posted about PATHFINDER's Solution to this problem here yet....

but in PathFinder you click the GEAR at the bottom left of the window and choose NEW SIDEBAR name it and the colors have returned. Perfect solution for me. Solutions for Finder have been provided already in this thread.

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Most of you know that Apple doesn't monitor these forums officially. So please go to http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Life Hack it:

http://lifehacker.com/5838882/replace-lions-monochromatic-finder-icons-with-old+ school-colorful-ones

Yep.

It works. I'm using it.. and yes, its a hack, pretty benign...although the SIMPL plugin warns, 'could freeze finder.'

I doubt it. The .plist in the .bundle (see LifeHacker) just remaps the icons, to EXISTING colored versions that were already

HERE:

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/

See for yourself... There are GRAY ones Starting with SideBar..., AND colored ones (the Snow Lep ones).... if you're geeky like that.

Sef.

That was the EASIEST way YET!! Thank you so much Seferino!

Is there a way to make it come on like that automatically which each restart so it doesn't have to be done manually each time? Thx

This was done a long time ago. Back on page 7 or 8 have steps to make it start up automatically everytime you log in. Plus there are videos on YouTube as well.

I found the link to run SIMBL etc but I seem to have a simpler way to make them always colour.

Using Automator I created a new APP and dragged the shell script function over to the right hand side then just typed "killall Finder" with no quotes. I saved this as an app and put it in my apps folder.

Then in system preferences, accounts I added this app as a login item.

it works perfectly and I dont need knowledge of scripting

wow thank you so much this works perfectly

Personally I like the grey icons, but this Softwar claims to be able making them colorful again: Lion Tweaks. I used it for other changes and it seems to do the job.

If you look at the Lion Tweaks app/utility, it is actually *INSTALLING* the ColorfulSidebar.bundle so there is no⚠ special magic to how it's restoring Finder Sidebar color, that hasn't already been outlined here.

Thank you so much norbertfromvienna, I LOVE that app Lion Tweaks. It does so much more than just the colorful side bar. And its much easier to use for people like me that keep having trouble doing things with terminal. I am just not a natural at coding. The guy who invented Lion Tweaks just asks for a tiny donation to get by. Its really worth it. I found mine here: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39654/lion-tweaks

I already posted my simple Automator App in Login Items method to restart the finder after power up.

I agree Lion Tweaks just asks you to manually install SIMBL but I am curious if it has some solution to needing to run killall Finder all the time.

Since I have a working solution I haven't tried.

From what I can see, apart from the coloured sidebar and making the dock 2D (who would want to do that) every other feature appears to just save you time going into system preferences.

You mean to say, I should better shut up and not post anything that might be helpful for someone reading the discussion? And I thought that was exactly what the support communities were for. Silly me.

You're most welcome! :-)