Changing the Macintosh HD icon

I just did this using the free program liteicon.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32346

System files are not accessible from the finder or spotlight. You need to use Terminal for that and you need to run the terminal commands as sudo. So, you really need to know what you are doing. Post on the "Using" forum and someone there should be able to give you some terminal commands. Apps like "liteicon" are just the kind of thing that causes problems when it's time to upgrade or update your system.

davidthomas83 wrote:
The copy and paste routine on the get info does not work.

it should work if you do it correctly. also, you have to do it from an account that has write access to the top level of the hard drive. typically, admin accounts have that right.

here are the instructions on changing individual icons:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2493?viewlocale=en_US

what do you mean you used the Time machine? did you do a full system restore from TM? check the permissions on your hard drive. select the drive and enter command+i. in the resulting popup expand the permissions section. what does it say?

P.S. You shouldn't mark your thread solved until it actually is solved. It disinvites responses.

David DeCristof... wrote:

System files are not accessible from the finder or spotlight.

Not quite true. Double-click on the boot volume's desktop icon and then drill down the System folder (that's the Finder way). In the Spotlight window, change the default settings, and add System files. By default, Leopard searches don't look in system folders nor things in your /Library/Preferences/ and other such places. To change the defaults, click CMD+F and, when the search window pops up, click on the Kind button, select Other, and in the next window, enable System files, close the window, click the Kind button again, select System Files, and click the don't include drop-down and select include. Enter the file's name in the search box and click the File Name button.

If you want to change the default Finder Find window, see my post at http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6725932

+"Not quite true..."+

Completely correct. I should have said "by default". But I'm not sure of the wisdom of the "average user" being encouraged to go mucking around in there!