Comments on: Fixing Stacks on Leopard

By: TrS

TrS — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:03:27 +0000

This is a great idea! Apple should know about this… and adopt this.. With this trick the Dock is well organised. The original concept is just confusing…. Thanks!

By: Mat

Mat — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:04:29 +0000

that worked… i left out the “~” after cd and its perfect… thanks andrew… not teaching me to suck eggs at all…

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:45:38 +0000

Mat, you probably just forgot the ‘/’ int he change directory location. Terminal will log into your user account (say /Users/mat/) typing cd documents or cd downloads will work as it will take you directly into that folder (since they are under your user folder), Applications and Volumes however reside at the root directory level.. so you’ll need to type cd /Applications or cd /Volumes.. As you can see I’ve changed my Applications stack to have the icon…

hope that helps and I’m not teaching you to suck eggs !!!

By: Mat

Mat — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:34:13 +0000

Hi, I managed to get this to work for Downloads and Documents but i cant get it to work for Applications or Volumes… I cant seem to get to the applications folder in terminal, the same goes for volumes. it tells me that there is “no such file or directory.” Any suggestions

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:15:04 +0000

mark.. not sure if i’m missing the point on your comment… you take a folder which has a icon attached to it, drop it into the folder the stack is assigned to, and then touch that folder to a date in the future, the folder with the new icon appears at the front of the stack with all other items behind it.. the items are still sorted in date order.

if you create a folder called ‘AAA’ change it’s icon and then sort by name, the stack will also show folder AAA at the front. I am talking about putting the changed folder INSIDE the folder that you stack; so my downloads folder has a folder in it.. touched to the future, with a download icon attached it it… my application folder has a folder inside it, touched to the future with a icon attached to it, I’ve not found any folder icons reverting back to default ones, regardless of the method used.. I did however find that leopard didnt seem to observe keeping the folder at the front without touching to the future and just relying on name…

unless i’m misunderstood both of your comments???

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:10:38 +0000

To Andrew: Something like that. Create a folder on your finder that you name 1a. And don’t call it AAA, as numbered files will get first, call it 1a and it will remain up front whatever you name the others.
Put it in the folder or pile that you want in the dock. Then sort the pile by name, and it will always appear with the folder first. Cheers, mark

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:01:23 +0000

Sorry, Wrong. If you replace the icon by another one, it will automatically revert to the basic folder icon.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:59:28 +0000

mark, which is exactly what you’re doing in the above example… you just touch the folder to a future date to keep it at the front of the stack

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:56:37 +0000

There is a very easy fix to make the pile appear with a folder icon in the dock. Just create a new folder named AAA that you add into the pile. Sort the pile by name and the folder will autoatically appear in the dock. You can even change the image of the folder before by replacing it by anything you want.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:49:57 +0000

Thanks martin, I’ve updated the link to point to the new site in the post..