Changing Sidebar icons

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  1. j0ebeer, Jun 14, 2007

    j0ebeer macrumors member

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    OK, I give up. How can you change the sidebar icons? For example, I'm looking at my Home folder and there are icons for My Pictures and My Sites. I find an icon I like and then change it via the Get Info command and the icon looks correct. But when I drag the folder to the sidebar pane the icon changes to something else. And I can't seem to locate where to change that icon. Anyone know the secret here? Thanks, Joe
     
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  2. DinnyHoon, Jun 14, 2007

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    Drag the folder to the sidebar pane, then you can right-click > Get Info on the sidebar Alias. Do the Get Info command from there, and all should work fine.
     
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  3. j0ebeer, Jun 14, 2007

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    Same results. It's like there's a different icon associated with that view.
     
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  4. apfhex, Jun 14, 2007

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    There *is* a different "Home" folder icon associated with the Finder's Sidebar (same goes for the Applications folder), and no matter how much copy/pasting you do you're not going to get it to change. For some reason it's not a problem with the other folders in the Home directory that have custom sidebar icons.

    You have to use software like CandyBar to change it.
     
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  5. CaptainCanuck, Jun 14, 2007

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    Alternatively, you can use LiteIcon. It's free, but lacks some of the advanced features of CandyBar, such as replacing application icons and their respective filetypes.

    It's basic, but it works.
     
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  6. lionheartednyhc, Oct 5, 2011

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    So Im have a similar question. I want to change an icon in the sidebar.

    I have two hard drives, and and have the "downloads" folder in the non-boot drive. Because of this, when I drag the downloads folder to the sidebar, it just has the normal folder icon (even though the actual folder is the same icon as the downloads folder).

    How do I go about changing the icon to something else, or getting the system to identify this as the default downloads folder?
     
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