11/22/2023 0 Comments TotalFinder add to sidebar![]() ![]() They are probably archived in a nib file buried deep somewhere in macOS, so you can’t even access them directly anymore. I’m not sure where the specific graphic files for those old Movies and Pictures folders are stored, but they are retrieved from the system by calling the NS function calls I mention above. I don’t have a copy of Snow Leopard to fire up anymore, but I suspect the icon images you see in the sidebar now for Movies and Pictures are the same ones from back then when Finder itself still had color. ![]() you could instantly identify a folder by its icon without reading the label. Rather he chose to use the older icons that date back from when Apple still had color side bar in Finder (Snow Leopard?). I believe the developer chose NOT to use those for his ‘color’ icons for that reason, you can hardly tell them apart at a quick glance. IMO, these are ridiculous, as from a distance or if the image is small, the watermarks are so faint, I can’t tell any of them apart, every dang folder all just looks the same bright neon blue rectangle. The current ‘color’ icons Apple displays in Finder that I think you were expecting to see in the sidebar, are those mono color (bright neon blue in El Cap) image of a folder with the subtle ‘watermark’ in the center that is supposed to remind you of Music, Pictures, whatever. As you noted, these do not look like the CURRENT folder images you see when you look at the folders in Finder, these are the older deprecated (discontinued) images Apple no longer uses but has left in for any old apps that are still programmed to expect to find them in certain location, but current macOS no longers uses them. ![]() These system calls return the icons that Apple has squirreled away somewhere in the bowels of macOS, so in this case, they aren’t in the CoreTypes bundle. If you look at ist, you can see that TF is retrieving the icons to display for Movies and Pictures directly from macOS from the resources returned by calling NSMediaBrowserMediaTypeMovies and NSMediaBrowserMediaTypePhotos. We are all at the mercy of the whims of Johnny Ives as he continues to try to make macs looks like iPhones. That Apple even continues to include the old colored icons at all is probably just for backwards compatibility but would not surprise me that eventually they stop even that in future releases of macOS. This post I did several years ago explains in more detail Feature request: custom icons in sidebarĪgain, TF is not inserting its own icons, simply using what Apple has provided, having said that, since Apple has switched away from color sidebar icons many years ago (I think Snow Leopard was the last with color sidebar), they have not bothered to update the color icons. Create your own ICNS icon files and insert the pathnames to the files. the ‘string’ values indicate the folder, the ‘key’ values are the path names to the icon file to display for that folder. You need to modify the file /Applications/TotalFinder.app/Contents/Resources/TotalFinder.bundle/Contents/Resources/ist. You can create your own custom icons for any folder that you add to Favorites and have TF display those in the sidebar. (If you have System Integrity Protection enabled, you may not be able to view this folder, or certainly not edit it). They are stored in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources. ![]() They are the icons provided by Apple that ship with macOS. TF does not customize any of the icons you see in the sidebar, whether in color or default Apple B&W mode. ![]()
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