I've recently replaced the optical drive of my Macbook Pro with an SSD and installed Mountain Lion freshly on there. This leaves the HDD available as well and on by popular suggestion I've symlinked a couple directories. iTunes Media, Movies and Downloads, specifically. Worked fine!
Now I've ran into a slight inconvenience: the icons and folder name localizations got messed up. Have a look at the screenshot below.
My system is set up to be Dutch, but as you can see in the screenshot above the Downloads and Movies folders are still English. I did add .localized files to both folders and the actual folders on the HDD did change to localized names (their icons did not change, but then again they're not in a Users directory – only the simlink is).
The icons are missing in the Finder side-bar as well, as you can see.
Any ideas on how I could fix this?
Best Answer
I did the same for the applications folder, and the way to get the icon was to copy/paste the original icon to the (new) original folder, the symlink regained the icon automatically and instantly.
The name of the symLink can be edited without problem, if it needs to be in the translated version, just translate the symLinked folder.