How to remove icons from the Dock and Finder sidebar
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Makovody with a little bit of experience remember how easy it was to remove unnecessary icons from the "Doc" and sidebar "Finder": dragged the icon outside its seat, release the mouse button, and - poof! - icon is gone.
Apparently, many kettles and svichery often removed so the necessary elements, if in Cupertino have decided to add a kind of "foolproof". Therefore, the "Mountain Lion," the process of removing some icons changed.
First, to remove from the "Dock" icon in the program, it is necessary to get far enough away from the original location - at 250 pixels from the lower edge of the screen, to be exact. Only if the mouse cursor will appear near the image of a small cloud, which means that if you now release the mouse button, icon "Evaporate" (if the program is, of course, at this moment is not running - otherwise the icon will disappear automatically when you close attachment).
In addition, in OS X 10.8, a new method for removing served their program shortcuts - drag and drop icons to the trash icon. When the drag and drop icon appears just above the "trash", the darker and appears just above
"Remove from Dock» (Remove from Dock).Secondly, the removal of icons from the Finder sidebar back in OS X 10.7 seem trivial task. Of course, you can do the contextual menu command "Remove from the sidebar» (Remove from Sidebar)But there is a more simple solution. When removing the icon outside the sidebar "Finder" hold command. The mouse cursor will not even need to divert away from the area of the sidebar - literally right next to it will be a cloud, after which you can release the mouse button.