Big Sur folder icon

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Big Sur folder icon

I upgraded to Big Sur and for the first time ever I am despising Apple and thinking it's barely better than Windows. One small hopefully solvable problem - I have folder aliases on my desktop and had customized icons for all of them. They all disappeared after the upgrade. I have one by one customized the icon for each folder TWICE now because they disappear. I did one row a third time and they have disappeared. Is this a Big Sur glitch that will be fixed or is there some sorcery necessary?

Honestly, I own stock and am grateful for the value from that, but if Big Sur were my first OS experience I would never have bought a Mac.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Dec 16, 2020 10:18 PM

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bailier

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Dec 19, 2020 7:19 PM in response to TapaPalapa

Greetings TapaPalapa,

We understand that you are having some difficulty with custom folder icons, and we'd like to help. Begin by following the guidance found in these resources:

Change icons for files or folders on Mac

If you see a Relocated Items folder on your Mac after upgrading macOS

Take care.

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TapaPalapa Author

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Dec 19, 2020 8:03 PM in response to bailier

This does not address my issue. Notice I said I had already customized my folder icons, which means I know how to do it. What happened is all the customized icons on folder aliases on my desktop disappeared after downgrading to Big Sur. I put custom icons back in the two dozen or so aliases. They disappeared again. I put them all back once again. They disappeared again. Fix that. Stop it from happening.

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