Okay, after upgrading to Mountain Lion, I found my Sidebar has no icons at all. Just the words you can click on to navigate.
I thought-corrupted plist file.
So I went to Macintosh HD\Users\Troy\Lbrary\Preferences and low and behold, no com.apple.sidebar.plist. There is a com.apple.sidebarlists.plist so I trashed that, emptied the Trash, restarted.
Still no sidebar icons.
Ideas?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), OS X Mountain Lion
I would like to thank trip3535 his advice did solve my icon problem. Very helpfull, one smart dude, I could not solve the problem.
thanks. i had that problem. solved.
Hi Brian,
Did you solve this sidebar problem? I have tried all the solutions I can find in the forum. Deleting files in the library/preferences folder like com.applefinderplist as indicated by MacJack in this forum. The icons briefly returned after I tried this the first time, then disappeared again permanently. Have you any solutions? Would appreciate help.
Did you search back to see if you have the SIMBL plugin installed?
Removing it cured my problem.
Oddly enough installing the newer version also solved
The problem but adding colour to the icons too.
Sorry I can't point you to the exact links but it should be earlier in this thread I am posting from my phone on the road so a little awkward.
Cheers and good luck with it.
Here is a link to a long thread about this problem and solution at the end:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4498102?answerId=21547083022#21547083022
This solved my problem!! I had no idea there was a Show/Hide control there. Not a good UI design.
Sidebar icons missing
