New Quicktime movie icon

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New Quicktime movie icon

Hi,

Is there any way to change the new generic QuickTime movie icon.

Not the program icon. I've already done that, disposing of the grotesque silver Q filled in blue!

It's the smaller icon I wish to replace. The icon for each movie file. Sure, I can change each one individually (plod plod plod). But I would like to just replace the generic, so that each time I download or rip a movie I do not have the silver Q filled in blue on the AVI or MOV white rectangle.

I have Candy Bar, but can't figure out how to do it!

Other than that, SL rocks!

Martin

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6), MBP 15" (2006) 2.3GHz Core 2 Duo 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, iPodTouch 1G

Posted on Aug 31, 2009 6:13 PM

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Answer 1

V.K.

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Aug 31, 2009 6:38 PM in response to MartinJapan

I don't think Candybar can do it. it can change the icon for teh app itself but not the icons you want. you'll have to do it yourself. control-click on Quicktime player.app and select "show package contents". go to Contents->Resources. There are lot of icons 9and other stuff) in there including icons to be used for all file types like MPEG-4.icns, Movie.icns etc. you have to replace them with your own .icns files. I suggest you back up Quicktime Player.app before trying this.

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Answer 2

MartinJapan Author

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Aug 31, 2009 6:41 PM in response to V.K.

Thank you. But I just cracked it. Click on a movie file, select Get Info, and change the default player to QuickTime 7. Then all the movie files return to the nicer icon.

Of course, if I want to use the new QuickTime, it is no longer my default player. But that's fine.

Thanks.

Martin

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