Custom icon for my USB flash drive?

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Custom icon for my USB flash drive?

Alright, now I realize I'm probably missing something here, but it's getting away from me here. All I want to do is have a custom icon for my flash drive that will show up on any Mac that I plug it into.

As it is, I can assign a coustom icon (by doing the old get-info-copy-and-paste-the-icon thingie), but it doesn't show up when I plug it into another Mac. I just get the generic disk icon. What am I missing? This has to be quite simple.

PowerMac G5 dual 2.0/iMac DVse/iBook 12 1.2 GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Nov 28, 2005 7:07 PM

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Answer 1

Andbrowny

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Nov 28, 2005 11:49 PM in response to Trey

Hi Trey, not sure if this will help but you could try Candybar.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16010
These icons I think are stored in the system, not the disk. so it may just do what you're already doing.
Cheers.

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Trey Author

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Nov 29, 2005 7:46 AM in response to Andbrowny

Well, that seems like it may be overkill. I don't want to change anything other than the icon for my flash drive. And I don't see where using it (the flash drive) on another Mac would help if the other Mac doesn't have Candybar installed.

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Trey Author

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Nov 30, 2005 10:15 PM in response to Trey

Anyone?

Sorry for the bump, but this is a pretty fast board.

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Answer 4

Dec 1, 2005 12:46 AM in response to Trey

Trey,

I may be PITW, but I think the icons used to represent various volumes/devices are (if customized) specific to a system (not the volume/device). Thus you would have to set the custom icon for your flash drive on each system you wanted to see it.

A WAG: I haven't the slightest idea if it would work for a flash drive, but for a CD one would drag the custom icon (.icns file) to the root level of the CD and rename it .VolumeIcon.icns before burning the CD.

Lee C
"The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese." -- Willie Nelson
See the article Backup::Restore.

Dual 2.5 Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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Answer 5

Trey Author

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Dec 1, 2005 5:56 AM in response to Lee Cullens

Hmm, well, if they're specific to the system, then why do the custom icons I have for my computers' hard drives show up over the network?

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Answer 6

Jan 11, 2006 12:33 PM in response to Trey

I've been having this problem as well. If I reformat the drive to Mac OS Extended, then the icon comes with it when I take the jump drive to another computer.

The problem is that I have this drive so that I can transfer files between a Mac and PC. If I format the drive as "MS-DOS File System" which allows it to show up on the PC, the custom icon doesn't follow the jump drive to the other Macs in the office. (don't even expect the custom icon to sow on the PC)

I use Pixadex by IconFacory.com to apply and manage icons, so I can assume that it's being applied correctly, meaning it's a problem with th OS.

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