TUAW Tip: Customize the Finder's toolbar, too

Holy Crap!!!

I dragged my Library folder up to the toolbar, then ran OnyX, and after restart everything is mashed - desktop picture gone, can't connect to the wireless router, desktop icons all over the place, half the Dock is showing question marks (where my 3rd party app icons used to be...)

I am posting this from another machine and doing some deep breathing exercises to try to stop the panic...

PLEASE HELP!!!

This tip is rather incomplete without emphasizing that the real boon to customizing the Finder toolbar is to place apps and droplets that are convenient for dropping documents onto. Keep text editors up there, and most importantly... applescript droplets.
I live by a little script in my Finder toolbar that with one drag and drop sends the file via ftp to my server space. You could put backup scripts, etc. in the toolbar.
For an example of Applescript sample code for instantly ftp'ing a file, like here: http://danshockley.com/codebits.php

wow, this changes everything!

Oliver, click the toolbar control. More info here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGWindows/chapter_17_section_3.html

This seems as if it would be a great place to place an Automator script but does not seem to work :- Or does it?

Very cool tip.

Gives me another option for shortcuts so my sidebar doesn't become overloaded.

Thanks!

And that is how 2 years ago, unbeknownst to me I once lost close to 20 GBs of highly important data on an XP share. Drag & drop the folder to the toolbar. Only OS X dropped it somewhere in the open Finder window. Create another shortcut. This time it works fine. Remove erroneous shortcut => Instant delete of all the data in that folder on the XP share. :/

I haven't dare to try it since. Nor do I know if Tiger for instance has safeguards against this. Anyway, just a word of caution using this with networked drives.

Wow, didn't know about this!
Thanks!

Indeed this is really nice, I'm working with this already a few month and I've dropped all my favourite and most used aplictions in the 'finders toobar' and it's realy handy (better then the doc) especially with large screens/high resllotions :-P

I wish there was a way to turn the toolbar off completely, but still have the sidebar. I've tried to remove all the items from the toolbar in the past, but the next time i log in it reverted back. So now I set it to display text only and have removed everything except 'path'.

Finger's crossed the next release of OS X will bring a new and much improved Finder so this will no longer be an issue.