How to Modify Mac OS X to Create Favorites?

This brief article explains how to modify Mac OS X to enable you Favorites folder and quickly make aliases in your Favorites folder to all your favorite files and folders. This article is best viewed in any browser except MS Internet Explorer. Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Go to Folder "/users/YourName/Library/". There, you will find another folder, with the name "Favorites". Drag this Favorites folder into the side bar of your Finder window. Now you can quickly copy aliases into your Favorites folder.


Of course, it would be easier to add favorites automatically. To do so, you need an AppleScript. Open Script Editor and copy the following syntax into a new script window:

tell application "Finder"
  try
    make new alias to the selection at path to the favorites folder
  on error myErr number myNr
    display dialog myErr & " (" & myNr & ")." buttons "OK" with icon 0
  end try
end tell

Save the script as "Add to Favorites.scpt".


Choose the folder "Finder Scripts" from the AppleScript menu (in the top-right of the screen, in the menu bar) and copy your script into this folder (the location of the folder is "/Library/Scripts/Finder Scripts").


If the AppleScript menu is not visible in your menu bar, open AppleScript utility. You can find AppleScript utility in the folder "/Applications/AppleScript/". Make sure that the options "Show Script menu in menu bar" and "Show Computer scripts" are active.


Now you can close any open Windows that you don't need anymore and select an item in the Finder. This can be one or more folder or one or more files or a combination of files and folders. Choose "Add to Favorites" from the AppleScript menu and go to your Favorites folder by clicking on its symbol in the sidebar. There, you will find aliases to your favorite files and folders.