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Re: Is it possible to Applescript the deletion and addition of items from a Finder window's sidebar?
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Re: Is it possible to Applescript the deletion and addition of items from a Finder window's sidebar?


  • Subject: Re: Is it possible to Applescript the deletion and addition of items from a Finder window's sidebar?
  • From: Peter Schwenk <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:38:34 -0400

On Sep 23, 2007, at 11:15 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:

On Sep 23, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

It may help your Googling to know that the "sidebar" is officially
called the "toolbar" (and was originally above the main content rather
than to the side, in fact...).

The toolbar is above the main content of the window; it contains tools for manipulating the window and its contents.


The sidebar is to the left side of the main content of the window; it contains files, folders, and volumes.


I did mean the sidebar (at least that's what it's called in the Finder Preferences tab of the same name). Let me change my question, since I now know that there's a plist file for the sidebar items, ~/ Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist. It seems that each entry has three bits of info associated with them, the name of the item, a strangely-encode alias for the item and a strangely-encoded alias for the icon. Here's what one entry looks like:


			<dict>
				<key>Alias</key>
				<data>
				AAAAAAEwAAIAAQZTeXN0ZW0AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
				AAAAAADBPTwjSCsAAAAE6zsHRGVza3RvcAAAAAAAAAAA
				AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
				AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATrRr5TV58AAAAAAAAAAP//
				//8AAAkgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABXBldGVyAAAQAAgA
				AME9dGMAAAARAAgAAL5Tne8AAAABAAgABOs7AABr2AAC
				ABpTeXN0ZW06VXNlcnM6cGV0ZXI6RGVza3RvcAAOABAA
				BwBEAGUAcwBrAHQAbwBwAA8ADgAGAFMAeQBzAHQAZQBt
				ABIAE1VzZXJzL3BldGVyL0Rlc2t0b3AAABMAAS8AABUA
				AgAM//8AAA==
				</data>
				<key>Icon</key>
				<data>
				SW1nUgAAABwAAAAAU1lTTAAAABAAAAAAZGVzaw==
				</data>
				<key>Name</key>
				<string>Desktop</string>
			</dict>

Does anyone have any clues about how the Icon and Alias are encoded? Once I find that out, I should be able to script the direct manipulation of the plist file to get the effect I need. Anyone have experience with this? Thanks in advance!

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- Peter Schwenk
- CITA-3, Systems Administrator
- Mathematical Sciences
- University of Delaware
- (302) 831-0437
- schwenk _at_ math _dot_ udel _dot_ edu
- http://www.math.udel.edu/~schwenk


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