RelaunchFinder

I am a major user of the Finder and was steamed after just "upgrading" to Lion. I first downloaded Lion Tweaks but that forced me to restart Lion Tweaks app after every reboot. RelaunchFinder solves that problem and my icons are my "old" but colorful ones.

Check in the Applications support folder in your user Library folder (option-click on the Go menu and select Library) to see if the ColorfulSidebar.bundle is in the Plugins folder in the SIMBL folder. If it's not there it would explain why Relaunch Finder doesn't work. You can find ColorfulSidebar at http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40989/colorfulsidebar. You will also need to install SIMBL to run the plugin, which you can find at http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/18351/simbl. This is all explained, more or less, at the developer's web site, though he confuses the rather straightforward issue by recommending his other app, Lion Tweaks.

me too.. especially since i was up all night adding the finishing touches to it :) .. briefly back to the drawing board I guess. I'll need some more info, nymannouri - would be much appreciated.. B. Jefferson suggests it's not adding colour to the sidebar, and my response to that concurs with his reply: Although my small app came about because of that related need, it's primary function is only to relaunch the Finder, nothing more. To have Sidebar color on startup / login you will need to follow the link he posted. What would concern me more is if it wasn't fulfilling it's primary function: that of relaunching the Finder.. hoping it at least did that for you.

It does what it has to do: restart the Finder, nothing less nothing more. Except: it did NOT install itself under login items! I extracted the app with Pacifist and added it manually as login item.

Ah wait: it restarted the Finder - Total Finder options are gone! How can I restart this???

@ imbasounds: I think it would be easier for users to sort out if you explained the steps for using RelaunchFinder more clearly. To begin with, it would eliminate confusion if you promoted RelaunchFinder and Lion Tweaks on separate web pages - and explained which one does and/or does not need separate installations of ColorfulSidebar and SIMBL. There are probably licensing issues that prevent you from including those elements in your own app, which is all the more reason to be clear about how to get, install and use them. That said, I find your little apps very useful. At first I used only ColorfulSidebar and relaunched the Finder manually every time I restarted my Mac. Then I grabbed your Relaunch_Finder script (and listed it in DelayedLauncher, which enables me to control startup item launch sequence and timing); then, like Fvdg, I used Pacifist to extract RelaunchFinder from the installer package because I want to control where it lives and when it launches - and test whether it works any different from the Apple Script version. I commend your efforts to improve Relaunch Finder and Lion Tweaks. Given that Apple seems disinclined to make Lion easier to manage, apps like yours will become more valuable as Lion adoption grows and your apps improve. Hopefully you are testing with Mountain Lion as well since it seems it will be coming out sooner rather than later.