Change System Icons (How to...)

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Change System Icons (How to...)

I use Leo's Icon Archive a lot and I found a nice set to update my OSX with, but I don't know how.

the Blend icon set is this one and all icons come as ICNS file extension, if I copy and replace the icon of my Hard drive using copy paste in the Get Info widown I get this:

just a ICNS file icon instead the actual content of the file.

Can anyone help me on how to change the system icons?

Thank you in advanced.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4), 15'', Multi touch pad, 2.4GHz, 4Gb, 200Gb 7200rpm, Geforce 8600M GT 256Mb

Posted on Sep 18, 2008 2:41 AM

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Answer 1

macjack

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Sep 18, 2008 3:39 AM in response to baexandre

Try this little app.

-mj

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joshz

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Sep 18, 2008 4:18 AM in response to baexandre

Open the icns file in preview, and then copy it from there. Then paste it into the info window, and you'll have the actual picture.

Alternatively, you could copy it to the root level of the volume, and name it ".VolumeIcon.icns" (without the quotes, and this would have to be done through terminal, Finder won't let you do it.)

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baexandre Author

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Sep 18, 2008 4:27 AM in response to joshz

that worked fine 🙂

but it should be a place to change all the icons, instead one by one, to make them the default icons of the system instead of the original ones, just like there is under Microsoft Windows.

ohh well, at least I can spend a while changing my icons to this Blend set.

Thanks joshz

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Answer 4

joshz

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Sep 18, 2008 1:49 PM in response to baexandre

Glad I could help!

Thanks for the

!

P.S. You might be able to make an automator action to change the file's icons-post in the Automator forum.

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