Icon's on Finder Toolbar

Interesting tidbit - I can drag any icon to the finder toolbar and plant it there for another way of instant access. Just hold down the command button then drag it off and poof.

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Modified finder toolbar not appearing on all finder windows

I like to add a trash, a get info, and a label icon to my finder toolbar.
I'm running the latest Mountain Lion on a dual quad Mac Pro.
For some reason, when I add them to the currently open window, the setting is not found on all my finder windows. What am I doing wrong? I thought this is the way it usually behaves.

That is the way mine behaves.
Hold down the option key while using the Finder “Go To Folder” command. Enter ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Relaunch Finder (command - option - esc and force quit) and test. If it works okay, delete the plist(s) from the desktop. You may have to use Customize Toolbar again.
If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer ones.
If you prefer to make your user library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/04/show-library-directory-in-mac-os-x-lion/
You might want to bookmark the command. I had to use it again after I installed 10.8.4. I have also been informed that if you drag the user library to Finder it will remain visible.

How to add app icon to finder toolbar

I may have done this back in leopard, I do not remember, but they are still there in 10.9. You used to be able to add an application to the toolbar in Finder by dragging it there.
Now I want to do this with a new 10.9 user install, but the application icon will not add when dragged to the Finder toolbar. How do you do this in 10.9?

That does not work in Mavericks.
You can launch your apps from the Dock or Applications folder or from Recent Items in the Apple menu  drop down menu.

Finder toolbar icons corrupted after upgrading to 10.5.5

Hi,
After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.5 from 10.5.4, the icons of the Finder and Safari toolbars got somewhat mixed up. For example, the "Previous" button shows the bluetooth logo intead of an arrow pointing towards the left, the "Next" button shows a sort of portrait of a man in a frame, and the "Reload" button shows a muted speaker. This occurs everywhere those icons would usually appear in Mac OS X (e.g. also in the System Preference toolbar for the next and previous buttons, etc).
Would you know what caused this, and how I could restore the correct icons? Where are those icons stored on my machine?
Thanks,
Tibo.

I am having the exact same problem. Right now I am using Safari, and instead of the normal symbols for Back, Forward, Home, Autofill, Reload and Add Bookmark, I have what looks like bluetooth, contact, theatre, back, mute and a symbol of a megaphone.
The back and forward buttons in Finder look the same as they do in Safari. However, there are a few toolbar icons in Finder that look as they should, for example Quick View. I read somewhere about the folder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app -> Ctrl-click and Show Package Contents -> Contents/Resources which contains what looks like some toolbar icons. However, it only contains some icons that I would expect to see, not the ones I am actually seeing.
And in my case too this happened when I updated to 10.5.5. The only odd things about my Mac that I can think of that might be related are:
a) I have a PowerPC Mac (a G5, as it happens) and 10.5 "Leopard". This is an unusual combination.
b) The 10.5.5 update did not work through Software Update and I had to download the standalone installer.
c) I recently installed Virtual PC 7, which doesn't work 100% with Leopard.
I have recently run Repair Disk Permissions and Verify Disk, but I will run them again anyway. If I don't post an update saying that that fixed it, assume that it didn't.

I've lost the 'send' icon on my mail toolbar and can not find or retrieve it.

I have lost the 'send' icon on my Mail toolbar and am unable to retrieve it so I am unable to send an email.

Launch Mail.
Start composing a new mail.
Click "View" menu.
Select "Customize Toolbar".
From the dropdown drag the "Send" button to the top of the window.
Click "Done".

How can I remove icons from the Finder sidebar? Were transferred when I set up laptop from my desktop computer. Tried dragging off but that didn't work.

How can I remove icons from the Finder sidebar? Transferred info from my Mac Pro desktop computer (using target mode) and there were folder icons on the Mac Pro Finder sidebar that are now on the MacBook Finder sidebar, even though these folders do not exist on the MacBook. Tried to drag them off, which is the usual way to get rid of folders that the user adds to the sidebar (as opposed to those that can be added via the Customize Toolbar dropdown menu) but was unsuccessful. I then unchecked all of the Customize Toolbar menu items and the folder icons still remained. What else can I do?

Did you hold the Command (Apple) key while dragging them off the sidebar? That usually makes them go *poof*.

Removing item from Finder Toolbar?

I inadvertently dragged a file to my finder toolbar where it is now stuck? I cannot drag it off or use and command or option key to drag it off? What am I missing here, it did it get corrupted in some manner?
TIA
Henry

1. Right Click on the toolbar and click Customize Toolbar.
2. Drag that folder icon out of toolbar out as like you remove any icon app from dock with puff sound
3. Done!
Hope this helps

Media Eject Icon Dimmed in Finder [10.4.5]

On a DP G5 with 3.5GB of RAM under 10.4.5:
I modified the Finder Toolbar by draging various icons into the Toolbar from the Customize Preferences window. All of icons are functional except the Media Eject icon which is dimmed.
I am using an Adesso Ergonomic Keyboard that does not have an Eject key; but I have matched the keyboard to the standard ANSI system definition.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
regards
G5 Dual Processor 2.0GHz; 17" G4 PowerBook; 15" Pismo. Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Found the answer myself. If you are using a non-Apple keyboard, the F12 key will eject the optical media.

How can I turn off the icons in the Bookmarks Toolbar? Thanks.

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Add code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/userChrome.css
<pre><nowiki>@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */
#personal-bookmarks .bookmark-item > .toolbarbutton-icon {display:none!important}
</nowiki></pre>
The customization files userChrome.css (user interface) and userContent.css (websites) are located in the chrome folder in the Firefox profile folder.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration
You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)

I earased my idisk icon in my finder window

I accidentally erased my idisk icon from my finder window. I have searched for it in every place possible so that I could drag it back to the sidebar but I have yet to find the icon again. I was wondering if there was anyway I could get it back.
Message was edited by: Jay44
Message was edited by: Jay44

I presume you mean the Finder sidebar?
In Finder, open the Preferences, click on Sidebar in the toolbar, and there is an item under "Devices" that is iDisk.
For future reference, you may have better luck posting Finder related questions in the appropriate Finder section of the OS version you are using (Snow Leopard (10.6.x):http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1341, Leopard (10.5.x): http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1221).

How can I add an icon in the firefox toolbar to access to I.E. outlook express?

I'd like to begin using Firefox as my default browser in place of O.E. 7. However, my Google mail account is programmed to feed e-mails to Outlook Express. I can find no way to add an icon to the Firefox toolbar to easily access Outlook Express.

In my limited knowledge there is no way for a user to add an application to this list. You might try one of these two options.
1. Use a utility like Cocktail or Onyx to reset the launch services database. This is the database that decides which applications get launched when a file is double clicked. It may be that the Endnote application didn't get recognized. However OS X decides what applications to add to the list based on files types.
2. The easier solution is to select one of the files you wish to open with Endnote. Right click on the file and select Get Info. Under the "Open with" menu select Other... and navigate to the Endnote application and select it. Now click the Change all button. From now on when you double click your citation file it will automatically open with the Endnote application.

Why are unwanted icons appearing on the toolbar

When opening a finder window there are now several unwanted icons on the toolbar, 2 are for games and one for a certain website. Don't know how they got there and customizing the toolbar does nothing to remove them or show how they got there either.j
Any ideas? Thanks.

They were probably dragged and inadvertenly dropped on the Finder toolbar. Command-drag them off and poof them.

Firefox icon inactive in Apple toolbar

When I click on the firefox icon in the Apple toolbar nothing happens. I must click on New Window under File to receive Firefox page

You can try placing the icon from the [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-customize-toolbars Customize] (right-click the + after the last tab) mini-window. Please note that the exact icon may not be immediately obvious; if you hover the mouse over the icons, esp. over any unnamed ones, you may be able to find the icon. It may look like a bunch of icons (<- -> X) clubbed together as one with no name.
If the problem persists, you can also try checking the [https://getsatisfaction.com/feedly Feedly support] for any new issues.
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly/?src=search Feedly]

OSX now crashes every hour. OSX apps like Dock, desktops, launchpad, finder, toolbar, etc become unresponsive, although sometimes non OSX apps (like Chrome, TextMate, etc) remain functioning briefly. No obvious reason or trigger

OSX now crashes every hour. For no obvious reason or trigger, suddenly OSX apps like Dock, desktops, launchpad, finder, toolbar, etc become unresponsive, although sometimes non OSX apps (like Chrome, TextMate, etc) remain functioning briefly, before the whole thing hangs and needs a hard reboot.
It is not apparent what I do to provoke the crash -- it happens while I am in seemingly any application, sometimes just reading a page and not taking any actions.
This started happening very suddenly two days ago. It might have happened around the time I updated ITunes but I'm not sure of this at all. And I never use ITunes or have it open.
Don't know how to diagnose the problem since nothing is accessible whence it freezes up on me. I tried software update, but problem continued after. Would appreciate troubleshooting advice. Thanks!
best,
gene

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time after you had the problem. Select the messages logged before the boot, while the system was unresponsive or was failing to shut down. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the end of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

How can i use text only instead of text plus the folder icon in the bookmarks toolbar; older firefox allowed this.

I prefer using text only instead of text plus a folder icon in the bookmarks toolbar because it used less space and I can display more bookmark folders in that toolbar. Is that possible in Firefox 4.0? It was possible in the earlier versions of Firefox. If it is possible in Firefox 4.0 how do I do that? Thank you.

First install the "Stylish:" extension then you have thousands of styles available to choose from, most consist of only a few lines, and you can modify them to suit yourself.
* '''Stylish''' :: Add-ons for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/stylish/
* '''Bookmarks Toolbar Fx4 Blue/Folders, Red/Bookmarks''' http://userstyles.org/styles/46947/
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