Sidebar Separator Hack For OS X

Here’s a simple and useful hack put together by Jonathan Berger that adds dividers to the Finder sidebar.

“I use the Finder’s Sidebar pretty heavily, but it was getting to be a mess that could really use some dividers. Solution? Make an empty folder called ” ……………….” and stick it in there.”

You will need a leading space. You can use any symbol in the pattern like dashes or +’s. Periods seem to work the best because you can make a long filename and when it’s abbreviated in a skinny sidebar it will still look okay since “…” is added at the end.

The last trick is to give your separator folders a blank icon to hide the fact that they are nothing more than folders sitting in the sidebar.

Link to Hacking Separators in the sidebar

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