Since upgrading from Mavericks, there has been an odd icon for Downloads in the finder sidebar. I've removed the Downloads sidebar entry and re-added it, completely deleted the caches (/Library and ~/Library) in the terminal, but the odd icon remains. Is there anything I can do to fix this erratic icon? See attached image. While the icon shown in getinfo is correct, the sidebar icon is wrong. Any ideas?
OS X Yosemite (10.10)
I have the exact same problem too, it only occurs for Downloads and ICloud. I can't seem to figure out what's the origin of the problem though.
I logged a bug report with Apple, to see what happens. However, I noticed another odd phenomenon that's related. I connected to the Yosemite machine from another (Mavericks) MBP, and when opening the remote file system (i.e., the Yosemite machine), I noticed that the icon in the (Mavericks) finder showed the Yosemite icon, whereas all the other folders (Applications, Documents, etc) were the normal Mavericks icons.
There appears to be something about the Yosemite Downloads folder that is different from the others.
I have found the apparent cause: I was using a little app called cDock (on sourceforge) to make the dock background transparent. This works nicely on Mavericks but appears to cause the icon problem on Yosemite. I have logged a sourceforge ticket.
A second, independent, cause is a Finder addition application called XtraFinder. I have reported the problem to them.
Yes that was it exactly! I had cDock installed, mainly because I hate the Dock in Yosemite. That is unfortunate for me, however until it is fixed I think I can live with the messed up icons, I just really don't like the Yosemite dock. I overall prefer the style of Mavericks, but the dock is the only part I really care about.
Alright, I found a fix so I don't have to remove cDock.
The bug has to do with "Colored Finder sidebar" option in cDock. Just uncheck it and it works great. No issues so far as I can tell.
Thanks. that worked for me too. I hadn't notice that setting.
Thanks from me, too. I had no idea what was going on with the sidebar icons.
Just noticed the same thing... but I like it! It makes the Download icon stand out as opposed to all the same-colored folder icons (whether grey or blue via cDock).
Now, if only I could figure out to make the Sidebar icons take colors! Even if I've change the icons on the desktop, and they show that way whether in List View or others; they do not bring the color over to the Sidebar. I've tried cDock color on and off to no avail!
Icons in Finder sidebar
