Does anyone know how to change these icons in Leopard? Candybar 3 that supports Leopard isn't coming out until late November.
Interfacelift describes a method to change the contents of Dock.app. I tried to change the finder.png that's in this folder, but it doesn't seem to change in the dock.
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work. I restarted the dock using the 'killall Dock' command in the terminal, and after that a reboot. Or the other way around. In Dock.app I can see the changed finder icon, but not in the dock. Maybe it's located somewhere else?
By the way. At the end of the Interfacelift guide it says to delete a file named 'com.apple.dock.iconcache.[yourusername]' from /Library/Caches/ and then restart the dock. This iconcache file isn't in this directory in Leopard. And I can't find it anywhere else on the system. Maybe that has something to do with it.
I found that rebooting in safe mode (hold shift after boot-sound, until the process indicator) helps! It resets all the cache, and the replaced icons appear.
it absolutely does have something to do with com.apple.dock.iconcache, if that file exists. that file used to be in the cache directory that you mention on tiger, but in leopard it's buried cryptically elsewhere.
to find it it's easy to use spotlight now that you can look through the system files.
to search though system files, type something in the spotlight search in a finder window. then click the ➕ icon below it, and switch KIND to OTHER. wait a minute for a popup window. scroll down and select SYSTEM FILES. then click the box on the right so it always comes up. then change DON'T INCLUDE to INCLUDE.
now if you type dock or iconcache the file should surface. sometimes there is a delay in creating this file. so there is no need to delete it, in this case, and changes will be seen.
Hi there, I too decided the trash needed updating.
I replaced the png files, switched users to Root, weird thing was in the Dock Resources folder the Trash icons were still the old ones, also the Icon for the Dock app was different, it was the icon from Tiger, double weird.
Anyhow one reboot later and I have a new trash can!
Not sure what is going on here, I didn't change permissions to Root for either of the replaced png files.