Use Finder icons in the Dock?

The Finder sidebar has these really swell icons for certain standard folders:
Nice and clear and distinct from each other. The Dock icons for the same folders:
are not so swell as the Finder versions. Too similar to each other for me.
Is there a way to make the Dock use the same icons as the Finder?
-tom

you can use [CandyBar|http://www.panic.com/candybar>(shareware) or [Liteicon|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32346](freeware) to change system icons including dock icons.

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Product: iMac, OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
Processor: 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 32 GB 160 MHz DDr3
Storage: 3.12 TB Fusion Drive
PROBLEMS:
1. When clicking on the Finder icon in the dock, the main menu grays out and the window with documents, applications etc., does not pop up.
2. iMac is not showing up in iCloud.com and, not syncing with my MacBook Pro, iPad Mini and iPhone.
This situation seemed to appear after doing updates on my iMac.
TROUBLESHOOTING I'VE TRIED:
1. rebooted,
2. repaired permissions,
3. booted in safe-mode and let the basic tests run then rebooted to normal mode. Afterwards, the problem seemed to be corrected, however, it re-appeared shortly thereafter and still exists.

Go to the Finder's General preference pane and reset the New Finder windows show: option. Try changing it to some other folder, try it and then back again.
If that doesn't jump start it try moving the com.apple.finder.plist file from your Home/Library/Preferences folder to the Desktop, reboot and then reset the Finder preferences.
For Mavericks and Yosemite go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:

How Can I Remove the Finder Icon From the Dock?

Hi! Can someone tell me how to remove the Finder icon from the dock? I don't even care if Finder quits. I just want it removed from the dock. I really don't care if I can't get to my files. Please help.

Start by going to your core services, (/system/library/coreservices). You can do this by pressing Shift+Cmd+G and then paste (/system/library/coreservices), without parentheses.
After doing this, find Dock.app, right click, show package contents. This doesn't contain the icons on your dock, just finder and trash.
After that, move all finder services to the desktop, and then erase them from the core services folder. At this point it will prompt you to put in your password, do so.
Next you'll want to open terminal and type 'killall dock' or, you could restart your computer.
This should remove the finder icon from your dock, while still giving you access to it from your desktop.
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-C

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Hello,
My Finder icon has spontaneously corrupted in the Dock. The icon of the Finder.app (in the CoreServices folder) is perfectly fine and its icon the Resources folder of the Dock.app is also perfectly fine.
Yet, the icon of Finder is corrupted in the dock as shown here: http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/2973/dockimage.png and in the picture below
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Have you tried removing all files containing com.apple.dock from the Preferences folder in your HOME Library folder and in the ByHost subfolder of the Preferences folder, then restarting the Dock (or logout/login)?
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Well, I'm asking this out of hope rather than necessity, but don't really expect there to be a solution.. oh well.
I was using my mac as usual the other day, when it suddenly started irritating me that my applications, documents, and downloads stacks were over on the far right of the dock, behind a split separating them from all the icons I've chosen to have in my dock, but the finder icon was over at the far left.
To me, at least, it would make more sense for the finder icon to be over on the right with the other icons that are more functional in purpose; a bit like a horizontal stack, with the functional on the right, the separator, then my icons on the left..
It's probably just me, though. I don't know; is there any way of moving it?
Thanks, Ed

Thanks, this solved my problem! ..
Honestly though, I'm not sure if you were trying to helpful or offensive. By "functional" I meant things relating to directories and documents. ie. Finder, Stacks and the trash. I admit it wasn't a good choice of words.
I'd much prefer them all to be nicely together, allowing my favourite apps to dominate the left hand side; if I'm looking for a file, I go to the right, if I'm opening an app that isn't related to browsing the computer for files, I go left. Easy.
On a side note, I would have happily followed your instructions if I could have dragged the least "functional" icon off of it..
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You should consider downloading the 10.6.8 combo updater and applying it again.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
Pondini has a great page about upgrading.
http://pondini.org/OSX/Combo.html

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