Customizing Finder sidebar

Hi all,
I just have a quick question. Is there a way to add custom apps to the Finder sidebar other than the one listed in the Finder Preferences? I have a gDisk (like an iDisk but instead of a .Mac account it uses your Gmail account) - is there a way I can add that "Disk" to the top of the Finder sidebar, just the same way as an iDisk does?
-Thanks, William

Just want to add myself to the list of customer's disappointed about the sidebar changes. The icons should definitely be in color and devices at the top... Now when I need to eject something I have to go searching at the bottom for it grr.
I'm sending Apple feedback about this. Everyone should do that and hopefully they'll make a change

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thanks.

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Have you tried creating a new account and see how your Finder works in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.)
Open System Preferences > Accounts > "+" make it an admin account.
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Did this sort the second desktop in 'save" dialog?
If not, navigate to ~(yourhome)/library/preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist. Delete this file.
Then navigate to /library/caches/com.apple.launchservices-xxxxx.csstore. You may have more than one with different negative numbers. Delete all of these.
Then navigate to ~/library caches
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Then log out and back in or restaret. Let us know.
-mj
[email protected]

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I'm using Mac OS X v10.5.8 & have been trying to find a way to I increase the font size in the sidebar of FINDER.
Has this actually been fixed or is there a 3rd party app that will allow me to do this much like in mail! but for FINDER!
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While those font sizes appear to be fixed, and perhaps there is a way to get into
the system via Terminal or some other super-user access, an easy utility to do so
does not appear to be readily available. If one is available, this feature is under
advertised or a sub-note hidden within.
I'd just been looking into 'Path Finder' by Cocatech, I did not see a reference to
this Sidebar Font size issue; yet did read into their Forums page to note a post
there asking about this situation. Since Path Finder is a retail product and adds
a new user Finder with extra capabilities (30 day demo) license is about $40.
No mention about their adding this; however many other controls are added.
(A Leopard 10.5 & Snow Leopard 10.6 version, plus older v. Tiger 10.4 appear.)
While their screen casts of features were a bit interesting to watch (in QT .mov)
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that isn't something I'd found useful, though something similar has existed in
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{Sure, I can say that while realizing the other kinds of access this may provide
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while not being all that interested in making a mess of what has worked well.
Perhaps someone with command line or Terminal experience has already
blazed a trail into this jungle, and left some great bread crumbs to follow.
Maybe a nice Script has come from surveying & marking the path...?
+PS: Hello, and welcome to Apple Support Discussions forums!+
Good luck & happy computing!
+{ edited }+

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I find this extremely annoying as well. Of course you can drag any volume to the favorites list - BUT - if you unmount them, they do NOT reappear there when they are re-mounted. You have to manually add them back again.
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d

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