Yosemite Tips and Tricks...

[bayswater]

Just to make sure, here's what I did:

Edit an image -- I do it in GraphicConverter, and save as a png file.
Open the png in Preview, Select all, Copy.
Get into on the folder in question.
Click on the icon and make sure it is highlighted with a line around it.
Paste.
Enter password, usually asked for on a App Support folder.

[cuttime]

Just to make sure, here's what I did:

Edit an image -- I do it in GraphicConverter, and save as a png file.
Open the png in Preview, Select all, Copy.
Get into on the folder in question.
Click on the icon and make sure it is highlighted with a line around it.
Paste.
Enter password, usually asked for on a App Support folder.

Yes, except I chose the images from a folder of previously prepared folder icons. These icons were visible in the finder under Mavericks, and have disappeared under Yosemite, and I have been unable to get them back under any circumstances. All I get is the generic pale blue folder. I can paste folder icons with this technique in my user directory.

I seem to recall this problem being mentioned elsewhere on the board.

EDIT: Hmmm...seems to be a problem with subfolders. I can customize the Plug-Ins folder, but not the Components folder. But the Plug-Ins folder is a subfolder itself. Odd. All of these folders have the exact same permissions.

[bayswater]

Instead of just copying from one folder to another, try running it through an image editor and resaving as a PNG. Then load into Preview, etc. There's no reason it shouldn't work on your system if it works on mine.

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Instead of just copying from one folder to another, try running it through an image editor and resaving as a PNG. Then load into Preview, etc. There's no reason it shouldn't work on your system if it works on mine.

Just tried this and it didn't work. I get the grey highlight around the folder image and the Edit menu flashes when I paste, but I never get a password dialog.

[bayswater]

Odd. Don't know what else it could be other than permissions, and you checked that.

[cuttime]

Thanks for the input. It's not serious, but just annoying enough to keep me trying to fix it.

[bayswater]

Thanks for the input. It's not serious, but just annoying enough to keep me trying to fix it.

I still don't know how to fix this, but I think I got one step closer. This folder

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources

contains the icons Yosemite uses in the sidebar. It ignores the icons you use and uses these instead. One of them is a generic folder icon which is what will be used for the Plugins folder.

You can edit these images, but that means all the icons used for a particular type of object will get the edited version.

UPDATE: Apple REALLY doesn't want us customizing these icons. Even if you replace existing icons with colour counterparts, Yosemite still renders them in monochrome.

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/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources

contains the icons Yosemite uses in the sidebar.

Wow, how did you find that! This is getting too close to rocket surgery! If Apple doesn't want me to customize the folders, I won't!

[bayswater]

Wow, how did you find that!

A secret site called google.

This is getting too close to rocket surgery! If Apple doesn't want me to customize the folders, I won't!

I'm going to if I can figure it out. I like the rest of the Y interface, but the monochrome icons make it difficult to quickly locate things, particularly if you have a lot of stuff in the sidebar. There seems to be a pretty simple way to add separators, and that helps.

[mikehalloran]

A secret site called google.

My niece asked me how to find info on getting a Eurail Pass for her spare time on an upcoming business trip. So I opened my laptop, went to the 'secret site' and, within seconds, found everything she needed to know.

Oh, the business trip? Well, as Director of Training for Google, she has to travel.

I will never let her live that one down.

[bayswater]

There's another one called Bing, I think.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I've been using Bing a lot as Google has started to take a long time to load.

[bayswater]

After a couple of weeks, I'm noticing considerably more CPU drain, higher temperatures, and more fan activity on my i5 MBP with Y than with 10.9. I don't notice it on my i7 iMac. It is quite noticeable using Safari, and I see in Activity Monitor, some Safari related processes I don't recall seeing before. Firefox seems a little "cooler", but is a bit flaky, losing the cursor, graphic errors, etc. Chrome takes forever to start up. Email and newsreaders seem to run hotter too, in fact just about everything that generates a lot of network activity seems to consume a lot more CPU.

DP seems fine, cool, and quiet. Same with Logic, DSP, and the usual suite of Apple editing apps.

Are others seeing the same or similar?

[mikehalloran]

My wife's Air is running smooth but it's on an SSD as is my iMac.

Her i5 iMac doesn't seem to be running hotter but I don't spend much time on it. She doesn't use Chrome but I do.

Firefox has security issues not present in Chrome and Safari. These aren't expected to be fixed till later this month. Safari is still buggy as hell.

Chrome took forever to load for me in L, ML and Mavericks on my internal HD but that's because I start with 45-60 tabs on one window and 12-20 on a second. Once loaded, my day job using SalesForce and GoogleDocs runs so much better in Chrome than any other browser with the exception of sites that require a Java 7 or 8 run time–Chrome is still 32bit.

On my SSD in Yosemite, Chrome takes about 10 seconds to load all of those tabs–22 seconds from a reboot. Yes!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

We've devolved into discussing our spouse's air? This stinks! LOL