How to Change Icons in Mac OS X
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There are some icons in Mac OS X that are a little tougher than others to change, but most of the desktop icons, especially those for user documents and directories, are easy to change.
Mac OS X provides a context menu for each desktop icon displayed by the Finder application that includes a menu item called "Get Info." It is usually the second item on the menu. Get info displays a rather comprehensive list of configurable information about a document or a folder, and also displays the document or directory's icon at the top. This is where you can change an icon, believe it or not. By selecting the icon in the "Get Info" window, with a mouse left-click, it will cause a blue border to appear. Using the keyboard combination of [Apple Key ] + C (the standard copy text command) you can "copy" the icon. Then, by opening another Get Info window and highlighting the icon in the same way, you can use the standard paste text command, [Apple Key ] + V, to paste the icon for the other document.PrintShare it! — Rate it: up down flag this hub
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For some reason I cannot change certain icons. I'm not sure if it's because of the file type of the images or the applications. The only application icon that I could change was FireFox. I couldn't change iTunes or iChat. Does anyone know why I'm having this problem?
Is there not a faster way to do this?! This takes ages, since you have to do it seperatly for each item! +.+
thank you!
I changed some icons in my home folder, but would like to change them back.. I know this isn't the problem, the thing is.. The shortcuts in my navigation aren't changed back to the default ones, but they show a tiny version of the folder icon instead.
How can I change back to default settings??
Thank you!
McLovin says:
2 years ago
Is there a way to change the standard icons all at the same time?