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Adding Folder to Finder Sidebar with Custom Name

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Mar 15, 202615315 views
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I'd like to add a a shortcut to Finder's Places Sidebar. The folder's name happens to be Applications, so I want to give it a different name since there's already the standard Applications folder there. Renaming the folder on the sidebar renames the actual folder, which is undesirable because I thi…

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Before anything, you should try renaming the folder. It will most likely not break your app because of how HFS works. But there are indeed some applications that might not link properly to files. I could come up with 4 different solutions: This may …

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