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Objective-C CLI Application tasked with removing sidebar favorites items by name

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Remove Finder Sidebar Facorites

🗃️ Archival Notice

This repository is made public since between Google and Apple they > figured something out and this annoying behaviour stopped > manifasting in early 2022. I'm leaving this up in case if findings in this repository can help anyone.

Overview

Objective-C CLI application to get rid of automatically appearing items in the Favorites section of Finder when using Google Drive or OneDrive on MacOS.

Readme 01

Installation

Navigate to Releases section in GitHub and download the latest Unix Executable

Readme 02

Once downloaded, put the file in any folder (I suggest /Applications with all other applications)

Usage

Application has two intended usage scienarios:

  1. Automatic usage via Automator
  2. Manual usage

Automatic usage via Automator

Idea of this approach is to run the application without any arguments on every launch. It will remove all sidebar items with OneDrive names and all items that include - Google Drive substring anywhere in the name.

🚧 TODO: Explain how to add this to Automator to run on google drive launch.

Manual usage

🚧 TODO: Describe that it can be ran manually and be bound to a shortcut / automator menu in MacOS