I'm on day 3 of Mac, so bear with me. I'm an OSX noob.
I store my docs and photos in dropbox. When I was first playing with Mavericks it annoyed me that I couldn't redirect the default sidebar photos/documents/etc shortcuts with the spiffy icons like you can in Windows library folders.
So... I set about googling, found out about symlinks, and found some terminal commands to delete the original folders (I removed documents and pictures)
The commands used were:
Repeated for documents.
Now, I notice there's an option in the finder prefs to just untick these defaults and not have to actually delete them, though it's too late for those two I already nuked playing around in things I didn't yet understand.
How can I restore these two original sidebar shortcuts so I can hide them properly in the prefs?
I store my docs and photos in dropbox. When I was first playing with Mavericks it annoyed me that I couldn't redirect the default sidebar photos/documents/etc shortcuts with the spiffy icons like you can in Windows library folders.
So... I set about googling, found out about symlinks, and found some terminal commands to delete the original folders (I removed documents and pictures)
The commands used were:
Code:
chmod -R -N ~/Pictures
rm -rf ~/Pictures
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Photos ~/PicturesRepeated for documents.
Now, I notice there's an option in the finder prefs to just untick these defaults and not have to actually delete them, though it's too late for those two I already nuked playing around in things I didn't yet understand.
How can I restore these two original sidebar shortcuts so I can hide them properly in the prefs?