[jszrules]

Hi, I have 10.3.3 and am experiencing the following:

1) Icons in the side-bar of Finder windows are changing to "basic" stuff. For example, at different times in the past few months, the side-bar icons of the Desktop, Home, Movies, Music, Documents, and Pictures folders have all managed to replace their defining icon with the traditional light-blue folder icon. Applications and documents have also, at some point, switched to the traditional white-paper icon. This is only happening in the side-bar, not to the actual files. Does anyone know what is causing this, how to get the original icons back, and how to prevent this in the future?

2) Due to the loss of the Favorites folder in the Go menu during the switch from Jaguar to Panther, I am trying to re-create this lost feature by dumping all of the aliases (there are a lot of them) from the Favorites folder into an AppleScript menu. Unfortunately, after I click on Install Script Menu, when I try to click on the Script icon in the Toolbar, I get a never-ending beach ball whenever I run my mouse over the Toolbar...and the the Menu never opens. I have to restart to kill this beach ball and Remove the script. What is causing this and how do I fix it?

Thanks for everyone's help in advance.

[wataru]

1) This is a known bug. There is no solution that I know of other than to restart, or possibly to log out and then log back in.

2) Why not just put a Favorites folder in the sidebar?

[thePurpleGiant]

Originally posted by wataru:
2) Why not just put a Favorites folder in the sidebar?

...or in the toolbar.

...or in the dock.

...or on the desktop (alias).

[JLL]

Just a note: The Favorite folder still exist and Cmd-Shift-T still adds something to the Favorites folder.

It's located at ~/Library/Favorites.

Drag it to the sidebar and it will even get the heart icon.

[jszrules]

Originally posted by wataru:
Why not just put a Favorites folder in the sidebar?

Originally posted by thePurpleGiant:
...or in the dock.
...or on the desktop (alias).

Because I don't want to have to open an extra Finder window or add something to the Dock to do this. I liked when it was in the toolbar because it went really fast, which is the whole point of having Favorites. That said...

Originally posted by thePurpleGiant:
...or in the toolbar.

How so?!

Does anyone know what is causing this Script menu beach ball or how to fix it?
Thanks again.

[chris v]

As far as the icon-going-away thing, I used tinkerTool to add a "quit" item to the Finder menu, and usually quitting and relaunching the Finder fixes it. Faster than restarting or logging out/in.

CV

[Xeo]

Originally posted by jszrules:
Because I don't want to have to open an extra Finder window or add something to the Dock to do this. I liked when it was in the toolbar because it went really fast, which is the whole point of having Favorites. That said...



How so?!

Does anyone know what is causing this Script menu beach ball or how to fix it?
Thanks again.

The script menu isn't supposed to open files. It's supposed to run apple scripts. It's probably beachballing because it doesn't know what to do with the umpteen aliases you've stuck in there.

Put Favorites the Dock, right click on the icon, and you're in business.

Or in the toolbar, and by toolbar, we're talking about the toolbar in finder windows, not the menu bar at the top of the screen.

[jszrules]

Originally posted by Xeo:
The script menu isn't supposed to open files. It's supposed to run apple scripts. It's probably beachballing because it doesn't know what to do with the umpteen aliases you've stuck in there.

The reason I've started with this whole Script menu business is because of a tip in one of the Macworld magazine articles. April 2004 Issue, page 59. Here it is verbatim:

"Create Your Own Apple Menu

Do you still miss OS 9's Apple menu, which let you access your favorite applications, documents, and folders from the menu bar? You could shell out a few bucks for a third-party replacement - but why bother, when you can use OS X's Script menu to build your own?

Open the AppleScript folder in Applications and double-click on Install Script Menu. A small script icon should appear in the menu bar. (You'll end up hiding the Script menu's default scripts in the course of this tip, but you can access them at any time from the Library: Scripts folder at the root level.)

By default, the Script menu reflects the contents of the systemwide Library: Scripts folder. However, you can also tell it to look inside the Scripts folder located in your user's Library folder. If you don't have this folder, create one - you must name it Scripts for this trick to work.

To begin building your new Apple menu, select a favored application from your Applications folder and Command-option-drag it to the Library: Scripts folder in your user folder. This creates an alias of the original application. Now click on the script icon in the menu bar; you should see your aliased application at the end of the list. Select it to launch the application.

Repeat this process for any other applications, documents, and folders...."


That is what I've done. Am I missing the point of this Macworld tip or using it the wrong way?

[Developer]

I tried this trick with aliases of aa few apps (Safari, Address Book, Preview, Mail and System Preferences) and it works fine. I then put an alias to the Applications folder into it, and it beachballed as well.

Put the Favorites folder into the Finder toolbar or into the Finder sidebar or the Dock.

[msuper69]

Regarding the MacWorld tip, It worked perfectly for me, although I just use the Dock for managing my applications and documents. Don't know what to tell you except that the tip does work, at least for me and one other person at MacWorld.

I've also had the generic icon problem in the Sidebar. I dragged off the bad ones and re-dragged the originals back. All ok after that.

[digiology2]

Say, developer I don't suppose your responsible for iCab? I'll have to have some words with you...

[Graymalkin]

I've got a folder I keep in ~/Library called "Aliases". Inside of it are aliases to all of my apps arranged by type (Network, Graphics, etc). I dragged that onto the Dock and now all I need to do is Control + Click (right click) or Click + Hold on the icon and I can access all of my applications. I don't need to clutter up my scripts menu or anything of that sort. I used to just have an alias to my /Applications folder but I found that since app bundles store their icons inside of the bundles instead of in their resource forks it can take a while for the contents of the directory to draw. Using aliases solves that problem. If you simply put an alias to your /Applications folder in a script menu it might be the cause of the beachballs. If you just use aliases to the files there shouldn't be any beachballing.