Simple Finder & Custom Dock Icons

Feel free to throw a "DUH!" on me, but I can't figure this out.
I'm trying to set up an account for my 3 year old. She's gotten good at using the mouse (for a three year old). I have an account setup to only run some Dr Seuss games, but you have to go into the Applications folder to get to the games. She can't read the folder icons so I want to have only the Dr Seuss icon on the dock but I can't seem to do this.
Any thoughts?

Sometimes people want to use "Parental Controls" to limit what a user can do, but with a three year old, you probably don't have to worry too much about that. In that sort situation, try removing "Parental Controls" from the account (or you can use "Some Limits" if you wish).
Then log into the account and arrange the "Dock" the way you want. Next, open "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Terminal.app" and enter the commands below, which turn on the Finder's simplified interface (big icons; one-click access), and lock the "Dock" to prevent items from being removed:<pre>
defaults write com.apple.finder InterfaceLevel simple
defaults write com.apple.dock contents-immutable -bool true</pre>
Then log out and back in. This doesn't fully reproduce the "Simple Finder" interface, but it covers a couple of the most obvious aspects. If necessary, futher settings can be introduced, à la carte as it were...

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Hi,
I've installed the Opera browser with the admin account, then created a normal user.
I then enable Parental Control on that normal account, select simple finder and only allow Opera from loading (and go into the list and make sure it's selected).
When I load with the user, Opera is not in the "My applications" folder, what's wrong?
If I disable use simple finder the icon shows up and runs fine.
Help please!

Sometimes people want to use "Parental Controls" to limit what a user can do, but with a three year old, you probably don't have to worry too much about that. In that sort situation, try removing "Parental Controls" from the account (or you can use "Some Limits" if you wish).
Then log into the account and arrange the "Dock" the way you want. Next, open "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Terminal.app" and enter the commands below, which turn on the Finder's simplified interface (big icons; one-click access), and lock the "Dock" to prevent items from being removed:<pre>
defaults write com.apple.finder InterfaceLevel simple
defaults write com.apple.dock contents-immutable -bool true</pre>
Then log out and back in. This doesn't fully reproduce the "Simple Finder" interface, but it covers a couple of the most obvious aspects. If necessary, futher settings can be introduced, à la carte as it were...

Custom dock icons...

does anyone know where i can get some cool icons and skins for my emac?

Hello,
This is probably the most complete and most flexible theme manager for OS X.
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter
There are a lot of themes for this program on the Internet. They list a bunch of sites that carry themes for the program on their site.
I hope this helps.
Let us know if you have other questions.
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Has anyone else noticed that the icons in the dock are less saturated in colour than in Leopard 10.5?
I noticed this as I have spent most of the afternoon calibrating an Eizo CG241W and the paler icons in Snow Leopard became very noticeable.
It's the same for the blue folder icons within Finder - colours are very pale.
However, the colour of images within Photoshop or InDesign CS3 as well as images in Safari are all bright and correct, like Leopard. I don't get it.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the new Dock's lack of bright colour?
Many thanks, Ian UK

Same here. Calibrated Eizo LCD. In colour managed apps, photos show fine, but Apple's User Interface, especially Finder and Dock icons, are not managed at all. Looking inside their app bundles (Finder.app/Resources/...) I can see that all the little PNG and TIFF files that make up the icons have Gamma 1.8 profile embedded (e.g. GenericRGB), although Snow Leopard runs in Gamma 2.2 by default (and I calibrated to 2.2 for years before that).
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I am setting up a new lab of iMacs and want to keep them on parental controls with simple finder. However, they're going to be able to access a flash drive that they attach. In Simple Finder, the flash drive doesn't show up. Is there a way to enable this?
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In a simple finder no volume icons show in the desktop. This does not mean the volume isn't mounted.
The solution is to make and alias of the mounted volume and but it in the users Documents folder.
So log into the mac under the controlled account, from the simple finder menu choose run full finder. Then insert the flash drive. then open the Documents and drag the disk volume icon onto the Documents folder. Then goto the finder menu and re-enable the simple finder.
now the only issue is that during the quick 10 mins I spent coming up with this idea I did not find away to safely eject the flash drive. So when unplugging it you will see the error dialog stating that you may have lost data for not ejecting the drive.
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I've got a number of applications on my kids two accounts that under the simple finder they show up as the blank page with the alias icon. I've tried repairing permissions, selecting/unselecting the setup and I've been unable to figure out how to get them back.
The accounts are set up as simple finder, and to limit the applications. I have checked the apps in question and even checked/unchecked them trying to 'reset' them.
Any suggestions?

Was it candybar that deleted your finder icon?
if so you just drag the custom icon (which is blank for the size you are using it in probably, reference picture) will POOF and your system icon should be restored. THEN you killAll Dock, which candybar does for you.
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in icon composer, and when you preview an icon, you'll see that it is really a container with multiple images. A reason why your icons are coming up blank might be that the spaces for the the other icon sizes are empty. if you go into Icon Composer, you can drag in the other sizes and save as an ico. Then you'll have a working icon.

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How do I find the iCloud icon to add to the dock. I believe this was on the dock when I first had the computer.

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In Mountain Lion, this behaviour has changed. Now either nothing happens, or Mission Control Expose kicks in with a blank screen since there are no Finder windows already open to show.
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I never knew the feature existed, so I don't miss it. It also isn't something I'd use in my normal workflow.
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I have an account setup with Parental Controls and using the Simple Finder. In the My Applications folder of the simple finder, all of the apps show up with the default blank document icon instead of the correct application icon. How do I fix this?

Hi Warren -
I imagine you already tried this, but just to be sure, did you change the default .tiff app in Finder? Does that change the icon? If so, what happens when you then change the default back to your app?
If the above doesn't help, what happens when you change the Bundle Name and Executable File name of your app, then set the default .tiff app to the "new" app? Not saying this is practical if you've already distributed your app, but it might help to know the result.
Here's some misc info that may give you more ideas: [http://ask.metafilter.com/67832/Changing-filetypes-icons-in-OS-X].
Btw, we have at least two or three experts around here who will probably know exactly what to do. I'm only filling in until one of them shows up. So if none of the above is useful, stay tuned.
\- Ray

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I'm going to assume that since you deleted your hard drive and all its files, you had a backup, yes? If the backup has an OS (bootable clone), then you can boot into it by holding down the option key when you start up you iMac and choose the backup drive. Then use Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to copy the files back to your iMac.

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The Simple Finder would be a lot simpler if I could put icons to open applications on the desktop instead of buried in a folder. Is there any way to do that? I'm sure there must be, but I can't find it. If I click and hold on one of the icons in the applications folder, it just opens.

Maybe this will allow you to do what you want.
From Finder Help.
Change preferences for a user’s Simple Finder
In the simple Finder, choose Finder > Run Full Finder, then enter your administrator name and password. In full Finder you can make the changes you want.
When you’re done, choose Finder > Return to Simple Finder.

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Lately my dock has been resetting itself to only showing the Finder and Trash icons....this is getting really annoying. Sometimes it will show all the icons then ill restart my computer and then it will only show the two! Any ideas how to fix this?
Any help will be appreciated!!!

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An "encrypted disk image" is something that can be created using tools included with OS X and might be satisfactory for encrypting arbitrary files. The procedure is described here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107333
Keep in mind that the priority with encryption is keeping your data "secure", but not necessarily maintaining the integrity of the data - since the entire contents of the disk image are effectively wrapped up into a single encrypted file, even minor corruption of that file could potentially result in the loss of all of the data so maintaining up to date backups is essential.
There are a few other things to be aware of, for example: When the disk image is mounted, it behaves just like a regular, non-encrypted volume so other users with access to the computer would be able to access its contents. The contents are only secure while the image is not mounted. For this reason, it might make sense to split up files into groups - things for which security isn't as important, or which need to be accessed frequently might benefit from being stored in a .dmg separate from the one containing the most sensitive, infrequently accessed files.
Don't share the contents of the encrypted disk image over the network. Obviously this doesn't make any sense from a security perspective, but aside from that, if a local user and a remote user both make changes to any part of the dmg while it is mounted, there is pretty much guaranteed to be corruption, and a greatly increased risk of data loss.
And unlike "Filevault", a stand alone disk image doesn't come with a "master password" backdoor so if the password is lost, its contents "will be irretrievably lost"...

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> When I add content to the page that expands the table,
the nav buttons on the
> left "spread out". This isn't happening in Safari. Any
help would be much
> appreciated. Here is the page I'm working on:
>
http://www.csayersdesign.com/achieveIT/pages/company.htm
>
>
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