customizing the finder?

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So I have been using the program Path Finder for some time now and love all the options and complex fucntions. However, it is TOO much. I don't need all the options and functions and I would really like to start using the standard finder again. So, in the standard finder i customized the toolbar, changed the background color, icon size, blah blah blah. It still isn't enough though, so i have a few questions:

Is there an exstension or haxie to allow tabed browsing within the finder?

How do I change the background color of the sidebar of the finder? It always is white and dosen't match the other background in finder. Yuck!

I recently found some very eye-pleasing icons to replace the stock sidebar icons, ie applications, documents, photos. However, the application and system folders never have and won't change icons. I copy and paste in the "info" window but it never takes effect in the finder. All the other folders have changed but these two won't change. When I open the "info" window the "icon preview" displays what i have pasted but the folder in the icon itself does not. How do i get the to change permanently?

Whats up with the little characters/symbols in the lower left corner? I have seen four little squares and a pencil with the line through it. What are they and what do they represent?

Anyway to get the "system preferences" to appear in the sidebar?

Anyone know of a website (if there is one) that has a collection of finder ad-ons for customization?

thanx in advance! I look forward to your responses.
jigzilla

ps i have an intel macbook
 
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herro! any one out there?
 
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I recently found some very eye-pleasing icons to replace the stock sidebar icons, ie applications, documents, photos. However, the application and system folders never have and won't change icons. I copy and paste in the "info" window but it never takes effect in the finder. All the other folders have changed but these two won't change. When I open the "info" window the "icon preview" displays what i have pasted but the folder in the icon itself does not. How do i get the to change permanently?

You have to log in as root...NOT recommended. Or use something like Candybar: http://iconfactory.com/software

Anyway to get the "system preferences" to appear in the sidebar?

Goto /Applications and drag it to the sidebar.
 
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Whats up with the little characters/symbols in the lower left corner? I have seen four little squares and a pencil with the line through it. What are they and what do they represent?

I'd like an answer to this question too. Anyone?
 
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that pencil means the disk you are looking at is read only
 
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how about a screen shot? may get more answers.... Im not totally sure what your looking at. a picture would help.

Command Shift 3.... to take a picture of the screen, then upload as an attachment.
 
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how about a screen shot? may get more answers.... Im not totally sure what your looking at. a picture would help.

Command Shift 3.... to take a picture of the screen, then upload as an attachment.

Here ya go ... I've even enlarged it for you. Thanks in advance for your interest in helping.

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At least if you're running OSX 10.4, if you go to your Applications folder and open various folders therein, likely you'll see this on *some but not all* resultant windows. The "some but not all" is the puzzling part; I haven't noticed any pattern to it.
 
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which folders? so far I don't see it on mine. Im running tiger.
 
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which folders? so far I don't see it on mine. Im running tiger.

Since we may not overlap in apps folders, here instead are folders in my [startup hard drive]/Library (not username/Library) folder -- for brevity, only the A-F ones -- whose windows have this icon:

Address Book Plug-Ins
Application Enhancers
Application Enhancers (Disabled)
Audio
CFMSupport
Colors
ColorSync
Components
Contextual Menu Items
Desktop Pictures
Dictionaries
DiscRecording
Documentation
Extensions
Filesystems
Fonts
Frameworks

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Application Support and
Caches

do not.
 
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on mine I see a pencil with a line through it. as someone mentioned that means (I believe) that folder is read only and can't be written to. I don't have any that I see yet with the icon your showing. Hmm, interesting.
 

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