Filed under: OS, Productivity, Tips and tricks
Finder sidebar separators
Here's a nifty idea to add a little organization to your Finder sidebar. Since it does not natively support separators, one fellow decided to hack up a solution by creating some fake applications whose icons are transparent and whose names consist of line characters. You can then drag and drop these on the sidebar to give the desired effect.It's a small thing, but a nice one for keeping your Finder sidebar visually tidy. The package also contains a nifty little AppleScript application that will launch the Terminal at the location of a folder dropped on it.
[via Lifehacker]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
paolo genta said 8:17AM on 1-10-2008
I just can't live without them...
simple and great idea!
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scrap104 said 9:45AM on 1-10-2008
I would have never thought of that.
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Andy said 9:46AM on 1-10-2008
great idea - and it also works for Safari bookmarks menu - or did I miss something that I can add separators like in Firefox in my bookmarks menu?
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Galley said 9:47AM on 1-10-2008
Brilliant!
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niclet said 11:07AM on 1-10-2008
Very clever! Thanks for the link.
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brian said 11:45AM on 1-10-2008
Very neat. Unfortunately, the sidebars are something else that are much worse in 10.5 than 10.4.
- icons are smaller -- why? big = easy-to-hit
- multiple shares on the same volume don't get individual icons--again, why?!?
- I DON'T like the expanding/collapsing thing--the whole reason to put things in the ALWAYS-PRESENT sidebar because I ALWAYS want to see them--duh!
The sidebar and the Dock: Apple REALLY broke CORE PARTS of the Finder--a CORE PART of the whole freakin' OS--in 10.5.
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Matt said 1:45PM on 1-10-2008
great! by the way - the work for pathfinder too...
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Justin said 3:08PM on 1-10-2008
I hate with passion that sidebar scrollbar... it just doesn't belong there...makes me want to go back to Tiger.
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Steven said 5:22PM on 1-10-2008
How did you get downloads to have a permanent home under documents?
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Ka-Meng said 7:40PM on 1-10-2008
Just drag the downloads folder from the finder main window to the sidebar, as you would do with this separator hack.
Fritz Laurel said 8:19PM on 1-10-2008
I used to do the same thing under OS9 for the Apple menu. Of course, that was back when you could actually customize the Apple menu. I miss MY Apple menu.
I remember an Apple rep explaining to us why they took that feature away. He said it was because people kept putting everything in the Apple menu and it "got out of hand." WTF? Whose computer is this?!
Ever since NeXt came on board (and presumably with their Unix-minded developers), Mac people have had to endure the big-brother attitude of these people. Apple is slowly becoming The Man.
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