Special folder icons

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Special folder icons

Hi!

A cosmetic question: I've been playing around with some of my special folders (namely Pictures, Movies and Music) which I moved outside the Home folder replacing them with symbolic links. Now everything is still working fine, but Finder doesn't show their special icons anymore (just the plain folder ones).

Any hints on how to put back the original special icons? (I've tried creating new folders with the proper names inside my Home but they keep the plain icon).

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Dec 5, 2007 12:45 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 5, 2007 2:50 PM in response to dolom

Finder assigns custom icons to folders with the appropriate names inside the home folder of the current startup drive. You may have to at least restart the Finder if you have been changing things about to see the icons, or perhaps logout/in.

The icns files that are used for these and other items live here:

"/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources"

Control click on CoreTypes.bundle and select "Show Package Contents" to burrow down into the Resources folder. The icns files can be opened in Preview, make sure the focus is on the full size graphic and not the drawer, and you can copy the icon and paste it in the GetInfo box for whatever you want.
Francine

Francine
Schwieder

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Answer 2

dolom Author

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Dec 7, 2007 1:02 AM in response to Francine Schwieder

Grazie Francine!!!

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