OS X Lion: Changing Sidebar Icon Sizes

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In System Preferences > General, Lion has an option to change the size of the sidebar’s icons.

If you switch that between small and large, you’ll see quite a difference in how your Finder windows look. 

Medium’s an option, too, but that’s just so…middle of the road. Pick a lane, darn it. 

Ahem. In any case, this seems like what you’d expect. Sidebar icon size refers to the Finder, doesn’t it? Yes, but not just the Finder. Oddly, this preference also changes the size of the sidebar icons in Mail, so you can use this to tweak your message-viewing experience to your heart’s content.

Well, as long as different icon sizes are the extent of what your heart is looking for. 

Melissa Holt

Melissa Holt

Melissa Holt is an Apple Consultant who lives and works along the Front Range in Colorado. She loves hiking, reading, and [insert more interesting third activity here]. Feel free to follow her on Twitter—she's @melissacholt.

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3 Comments

Lee Dronick

We need a setting that will change the size of the icons based upon the music be played in iTunes kind of like equalizer display.

iJack

Lee ~ How about icons that throb with the bass?

Lee Dronick

That too would be cool.

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