Peter N Lewis:

The Leopard Dock shows folders as a layer of icons, which is crazy for folders as you cannot easily recognize a folder based on its contents. Especially crazy when the folders have recognizable icons already!

Of course, here at Stairways we prefer to find solutions to problems rather than just grumble, so here is a trivial solution. Simply create an alias to the folder, name it to sort as the first icon, and put it in the folder.

(Via Stairways Software, via Daring Fireball.)

Another option is to do what I’ve been doing with my main projects folder and just store the alias itself in the dock. This restores the ability to click the Dock icon to open a Finder window, which is what I want for this folder - the Stacks preview of the folder is a hindrance for me in this case. The downside is that you have to store an alias somewhere on your disk just for this purpose.

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