Hi Pat, I thought I had explained it fairly fully in my two previous posts - I am not just trying to add a custom icon to a folder (which I could do any number of ways (including CocothumbX) - I also have no problems in actually adding the folders to the sidebar.
My problem is trying to get a different icon to show in the sidebar than shows in the finder window (as per the Apple folders music/downloads/pictures etc). The link Daniel provided in his second post: <http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=83832> In fact covers exactly my problem and also points to how it is done for the actual Apple folders (defined as unique types in the info.plist of CoreTypes.bundle) - although there is no solution for doing it for ordinary folders. It would seem that a workaround would be to use a custom 16x16 icon together with the normal larger icons - so that finder picks up the smaller icon to use in the sidebar but uses the others in normal finder view (assuming you haven't set the icon display size down to 16x16) I haven't tried this yet, but I may have a play later. With regard to the problem you note: > > Since SL, some, but not all, of these custom icons in the sidebar persist in > reverting to the generic folder icon. This may well depend on the actual set of icons associated with the folder - I would assume that if there is a set of icons and you have replaced the larger icon(s) but not the small 16x16 then the replacement would show in finder but the old default would show in sidebar. Alternatively, if you have replaced all sizes you would see the custom icon in the sidebar - also if there is no smaller icon, then I believe Finder will automatically scale down the larger icon - so again you would see the custom icon in sidebar. I don't know how that relates to your various folders with custom icons - it may be that you used a slightly different method with some than others - or that the originals had different icon sets to start with? (Just a few thoughts) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/5/10 9:51 AM, Pat at clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: > > Hi, Neil, > > I'm not sure what you are asking. I have added a number of folders with > custom icons (made with CocoThumbX) to the sidebar with the old tried and true > method of dragging the folder there, also by Command-Option dragging. > > Since SL, some, but not all, of these custom icons in the sidebar persist in > reverting to the generic folder icon. I would be interested in why this > happens. Perhaps you could try a few and see if they stick. > > Cheers, > Pat > > On 27/05/2010, at 8:50 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hi Pat, >> >> Thanks for the link. >> >> Unfortunately this program is for creating thumbnail images - which is not >> what I am looking for. >> >> I realise that it can be used to add an icon to an image file - but I am >> specifically interested in the different sidebar-specific icons that some >> default Apple folders have and how/where you attach/insert them into the >> folder (resource fork??). >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com >> >> >> >> >> on 27/5/10 6:48 PM, Pat at clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: >> >>> >>> Try CocoThumbX from http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/ >>> >>> Pat >>> >>> On 27/05/2010, at 2:06 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
