sidebarlists.plist

@c0up3 Would you want this set at every login or just once?

Am thinking would need to be every login as I dont want these to change

I would suggest if you want this on login. Create a LaunchAgent plist to execute a package or script reconfiguring the sidebar.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Any other ideas though?

Here is a script to modify the Sidebar for users. Be sure to set line 10 to True if you want to use with Casper.

changeSidebarListsCasper.py

Thanks @matt4836 this script is amazing! I've been looking for something like this for ages. Never had much luck with the sidebar preferences.

@davidacland I already made some important changes to it.

Added:
When run as Root (Casper) It now modifies the Logged in User’s Sidebar (requires a log out)
Test to make sure File Exists
Ability to specify Current Finder User’s Home Directory as a variable. (Use HOMEDIR as the variable). Example:
script.py last HOMEDIR/Music To add the user's Music Folder

Updated

Nice one. Thanks again for sharing!

Thanks @matt4836. I've been working with @gfawkes on this, and can echo his response. This will be much appreciated by folk I support! I'll send you a little cash as we use it :D

Hey @matt4836 , your links are broken for me. Can you update please?!

Weird.

GitHub.com/matt4836

Thanks - this is going to be really helpful!

That script sounds like it's made to do what I want to do. Where might I start in learning how to use it?

This script would really be helpful to me. Similarly to tuinte I don't really know where to start. All I need to do for now is remove "Connected Servers" from a group of Macs and a lot of this script means nothing to me :( I use Apple Server with Profile Manager and not the Casper Suite. If anybody could help point me in the right direction it would me massively appreciated. Thanks.

How do I use this script with Casper - I don't know much about how to implement python scripts in OS X. Does it aid Casper in setting the sidebar or do you change items in the script to manually give the sidebar the contents you want?

You would add the script to Casper, then create a policy to run it, adding the necessary variables.

In the policy script variables, you can use the parameters to add the extra info, for example:

Parameter 4 - last
Parameter 5 - HOMEDIR

This would add the home directory, last in the list of the finder sidebar.

Ah thanks David, thats given me a good key to work from. To the dev machine!

There is also this.

Thanks @bentoms this looks even more intuitive. I'm going to try this out next week!

Looks like the change_sidebar_list script broke with El Cap....
(Changes to python...)

Anyone have enough python experience to know how to fix it?
(I really need to get my python on....)

github issues page