June 21, 2011

Sync folder icons with Dropbox (Mac osx)

As you know, with Dropbox all is in Sync between computers, but there is something that doesn’t sync: Custom Folder Icons. To solve this I wrote this to automator actions (services). With  this you can select a bunch of folders (with custom icons) and launch the menu option Dropbox - Backup folder Icons from the Services menu in Finder. Then when Dropbox sync, in the other computer you whant to recover this icons, just launch the other service: Dropbox - Recover folder Icons.

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INSTALL

Just expand the zip after download and move the services to your user ~/Library/Services.

NOTE: To make work this services is needed the setfile command, that comes with the developers tools, if you don’t have it installed just download from the above link and follow this instructions.

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HOW TO USE

In the first computer select folders (with custom icon)…

… then launch the service to backup icons.

In the second computer select the folders

… and launch the recover service

you do it!

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DOWNLOAD

Dropbox - Backup folder Icons

Dropbox - Recover folder Icons

Set file command

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