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
Thank you!!!
Finder > Preferences > Sidebar
Check those that you would like to appear.
Oh that was done already.
Did you hover over the labels (e.g., 'Devices' or 'Favorites') and try hitting 'Show'?
Yes I did.
You can Get Info and see the icons in the Get Info box.I tried changing the default icon to a new one, and it also did not appear.
Here is an example:
The plist file itself does not exist, which seems to me to be strange.
I'm having the same issue.
I got them back for an instant after repairing permissions, restarting but now they're gone again for good.
Here's a view:
I am having a similar problem except my network shares do not show up. Sometimes I can get a couple of them to show up for a little while, and then they disappear again for no apparent reason.
Worked fine in Lion...
Exactly same issue here. using 2009-mid macbook pro. upgraded from lion. it didn't appear in the beginning, so I installed it over it again, so it appears. but now today it has gone again. i don't want to reinstall again and again. Help me as well!!
Delete these 2 folders then, voila!! it worked for me!
STEP 1 : 위의 SIMBL 경로 안에 있는 ColorfulSidebar.bundle 을 Delete합니다.
[Main HDD] / Library / Application Support / SIMBL / Plugins / ColorfulSidebar.bundle
STEP 2 : 아래 경로 내에 있는 com.colorsidebar.root.plist 파일을 Delete합니다.
Users/[본인 계정 이름]/Library/LaunchAgents/ or [Main HDD]/Library/LaunchAgents/
STEP 3 : restart.
Thanks. That was it.
I use EasySIMBL to toggle the colorful icons. By that way I don't need to use the restart-finder script as startup item. Once you turned on the icons, it keeps this setting until you turn it off again. 🙂
I got it from this guy:
http://www.acky.de/2012/07/os-x-mountain-lion-finder-seitenleiste-bunte-icons-re loaded/
My sidebar is completely missing, and is enabled in Options. And if I open the Dropbox folder from the Dropbox icon, it is there. I have never installed ColorfulSidebar.
So something else is wrong. I thought it might be TotalFinder, but I uninstalled it.
I have noticed ever since Lion and ML removed the little button to turn on the toolbar and sidebar (eg when you mount a data DVD on your desktop) that to get the toolbar you press show toolbar, to get the side bar and press show side bar it does not come on but if you then go and press it again it does.
I assume you have tried the menu options multiple times in succession?
works for me
Thanks this seems to solve my problem!Time will tell.
Sidebar icons missing
