Certain icon types will not show up in Mac OS. They appear as blank files.

Welcome to Apple Discussions and welcome to Mac.

Joh T wrote:
Okay, so I've been using Mac OS for 2 weeks now. I haven't done anything besides changing some icons here and there.

Yes, it's usually best to nothing until you learn an OS.

If I download certain icons that should appear as an icon of some sort (how would I know? I've never been able to see them!) they show up as an white, empty, blank, 0 kb file that I can't use for anything.

How are you downl;oading them. I just went to your example and dragged the flarup.png to my desktop (that's all you need to do to download). It shows the image on my file and is appended .png.

Try that and let us know what happens.

Here's an example of such icon:
http://flarup.deviantart.com/art/Camera-Icon-70729129?q=1&qo=1

In the "MAC" folder I simply see an empty file and not an icon.

Do you mean the Macintosh HD folder?
You really shouldn't save to that folder. Save within your Documents folder. I make a folder called MyStuff w2ithin Documents to seperate my stuff from stuff Applications puts there. Then use all the sub folders I need.

I would also suggest you <a href="http://www.apple.com/support/mac101" </a>take a look at Mac 101 and Switch 101. There's a wealth of info there.



-mj

Does anyone know what's going on? Thanks in advance.

Sorry if I insulted you...
There's no way of knowing a users skill levels, especially on their first post.

Please let me know the steps to reproduce this and I'll give it a go.



-mj

Looks like it's not unzipping properly. Or maybe re-download that file?

Here (I use The Unarchive.app to unzip, not the builtin) I get the correcet icon on the Camera Color Lens file - just the lens at the small view, the full DSLR in a larger view.

"The Unarchiver", sorry. I keep typo'ing that. It handles near everything with the bare minimum of fuss.

Yes, it does work properly for me with your exact steps (except it was unzipped automatically).




-mj

Good news!

I do commend The Unarchiver, it's only ever let me down with .7z files, and it's been updated to work with them since.