Geek Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/color-finder-sidebar-icons-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Color Sidebar icons in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" title="color-finder-sidebar-icons-os-x-lion" width="500" height="284" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20545" /></p> <p>OS X Lion brought greyscale icons to the Mac OS X Finder window sidebar, but if you’d rather have some color back in your desktop window sidebars, you can get this done easily through a third party plugin. </p> <p>If you’ve been following some of our other <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Lion tips</a>, you may already have SIMBL installed, otherwise it’s a small download.</p> <ul> <li>Download and install SIMBL, which <a href="http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php">you can get here</a></li> <li><a href="http://cooviewerzoom.web.fc2.com/ColorfulSidebar1.0.dmg.zip">Download the ColorfulSidebar SIMBL plugin </a> (direct link) or <a href="http://cooviewerzoom.web.fc2.com/colorfulsidebar.html">visit the developers home</a> and mount the DMG file</li> <li>Move the ColorfulSidebar.bundle into the following SIMBL plugin folder:</li> <p><code>~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/</code></p> <li>Either login and logout of Mac OS X, or just kill the Finder through the Terminal to relaunch it:</li> <p><code>killall Finder</code> </ul> <p>One oddity about this solution is that you may need to kill the Finder again to bring the color icons back after a full system reboot, otherwise this works trouble free. </p> <p>If you ever want to get the grey icons back, you just need to remove the ColorfulSidebar.bundle file from the SIMBL plugins folder and then relaunch the Finder again.</p> <p>On a somewhat related note, you can also <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/get-personal-folders-back-in-os-x-lions-desktop-window-sidebar/">bring back the personal folders</a> in your OS X Lion Finder window sidebars. Those icons will gain color again too.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/88wV9G33Ufo2sDw0GLwALdntX_g/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/88wV9G33Ufo2sDw0GLwALdntX_g/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/88wV9G33Ufo2sDw0GLwALdntX_g/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/88wV9G33Ufo2sDw0GLwALdntX_g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=LrcBgW5F4PY:jJBc9YyeWP4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=LrcBgW5F4PY:jJBc9YyeWP4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=LrcBgW5F4PY:jJBc9YyeWP4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=LrcBgW5F4PY:jJBc9YyeWP4:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=LrcBgW5F4PY:jJBc9YyeWP4:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=LrcBgW5F4PY:jJBc9YyeWP4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=LrcBgW5F4PY:jJBc9YyeWP4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/LrcBgW5F4PY" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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