MacOS – Restore deleted sidebar icons after moving user folder to another drive

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I moved my user directory to another hard drive, as I am using an HDD (for Data) beside my SSD (for system).
After that, all the sidebar icons in Finder got lost and now that are just folder icons.

I tried to drag&drop the icns-files from
/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/

in the informations-window of the corresponding folder. But that just change the appearance of the folders, not the sidebar icons.

How can I restore the icons? Maybe someone could upload empty folders with the right icons, so that I could copy&paste them in my folders?

Best Answer

This worked for me:

Go to your Finder Go menu hold the option key and choose Library. Then go to the Preferences folder and trash these files:

  • com.apple.finder.plist
  • com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

Then restart (You will have to reset a some finder prefs the way you like them).

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