Color Finder Icons

For the record, if anyone at Apple is reading this, please bring back the colored finder sidebar icons! The monochrome icons really detract from productivity by forcing you to find the correct one in a sea of grey.
Thanks!

Two other options are below:
Go to the link below, download and install the program. Please read the instructions on the page.
http://culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
Then go to the link below, download and extract the program. Put the program in the plugins folder created above.
http://cooviewerzoom.web.fc2.com/colorfulsidebar.html
Force quit Finder and when you open a new Finder window, you should have color in the sidebar, although not across the top. You will need to Force quit Finder and open a new window after almost all restarts and startups.
Not perfect, but it works.
As an alternative, you can go to the link below and download the program. In the Lion Tweaks section, there is a tweak to restore color in the Finder sidebar, but I haven't tried it, so I don't know if it works.
Hope this helps.

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Login to another User account. Does it do it there? If not, try trashing your Dock preferences in your main User account.
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Hello,
Ideally you need to boot from the disk as you have no other media advisable. (e.g your hard drive)
Without some form of system disk or restore you wont be able to diagnose the problem with your hard drive.
By using a Mac OS X system disk you can load up the Disk Utilities and repair the hard drive if shown it's available. If it's not available you would need to replace the hard drive and reinstall Mac OS. Without any disk to support you, you are going to struggle.
You can obtain replacement disk, both retail copies or system disk on the Internet.
If you know what version of Mac OS X you had install (I'm guessing that it would have been 10.3, but would recommend 10.4) A retail disk is normally black with a colored 'X' on it, while system disk are always.
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It may be a trivial question and more to do with cosmetic then serious software or hardware issues. Anyway, last time I attended a conference, I happen to see a guy whose finder icon in the dock was with a brown color hat. I was in a hurry so I could not ask him. I tried looking online but could not find it. Does anyone of you know where to find such an icon? Is that a different program or something? I always get my icons from: http://interfacelift.com. And I could not find it there. Your help will be appreciated!
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Thanks a lot Badunit.
Badunit wrote:
Go to this place and see if it looks the same there:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app
When you get to Dock.App, right click and "show package contents". Then navigate the rest of the way to
/Contents/Resources/finder.png
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Nevertheless,the pink halo icon it is functioning fine. But I still would like to have it the original way.
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SOLVED: Close Case
I had Powerbox Injector & EasySIMBL running to change the side finder icons to the older, colorful versions. These stayed colorful, but messed with the tags. All good now.

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Hey sunnyday7!
Here is an article that can help you address this issue:
OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3411
Additional Information
OS X automatically relaunches the Finder when it is quit. If the Finder is unresponsive, use Force Quit to relaunch it. Select Finder in the Force Quit Window or Dock, then click Relaunch.
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(I am on mavericks btw)
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Then, update your profile/product info. BTW, I have nothing for the icon problem.

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