customise my folder icons in Mountain Lion

Hi Kappy

thanks, that's really helpful & generous of you !

so who should i contact at Apple to make it possible to change icons in the traditional Apple way - right click get info>select icon>paste whatever icon was copied

any insight on that ? i mean even in Lion it worked so obviously no need to downgrade to Leopard....

Hi Tuttle

now that's what i call relevant info... ;-)

will look into it & try it out, many thanks !

Hi anjikn

i hear you my friend, i hear you....

it's not that i question the IMMENSE technical capabilities of the people at Apple - reason why i buy & use Macs.. - BUT i have this primitive tendency to believe Mother Nature ( to me the MOST EFFICIENT resources user EVER... ) has got A FEW things FULLY SORTED to start with & DOESN'T need human meddling to improve things since there's NOTHING to improve upon...

in my opinion, color as an identifying aid is DEFINITELY one of them ! but when i commented on the exact same thing in Lion, i've realized this concept IS hard for some to wrap their minds around, go figure...

i HAVE tried SideEffects & basically nothing happened, neither good nor bad ! so i just uninstalled it & that was that..

i won't bother going back to Lion because ever since i 1st laid hands on M.Lion i DO LIKE the way it ''flows'' & i know it's only a matter of time before someone comes along & delivers....

personally i would rather Apple do it but if it's somebody else what's the problem ? at the end of the day whoever delivers what i need is the one who gets my money...

meanwhile if i find something relevant i'll post back here

cheers

hi guys

guess what ? stuborn as i am & after reading so many people praising the virtues of SideEffects, i downloaded it again, re-installed &.....VOILÁ ! no more dreary, dictatorial ''soviet institutional'' grey in my Finder Sidebar ! ;-)

don't ask me what did i do different this time, as far as i can tell i did the exact same, fact is it works fine now

iTunes being grey doesn't upset me so much since i SIMPLIFIED it as much as possible ( alphabetical ''genre'' playlists where A is Alternative, B is Blues, C classical, etc..) plus the fact i'm TERRIFIED to mess with it & have it go nuts on me

however i would LOVE to get my Apple Mail sidebar icons & folders in color as i used to have them - call me crazy but to me color icons are EXACTLY like traffic lights :

red = stop & green = go, IMPOSSIBLE to mix THAT up - someone could shuffle them 3 times a day & i still WOULDN'T confound them

cheers

Hi Guys

Tuttle :

thanks for suggesting SideEffects but somewhow i couldn't mark that answer as the one that solved this so....i marked the your next which doesn't make much sense but, there you go ! ;-)

anjikn :

good to know, i was fiddling away with it the other day & the ''Apply Icons'' kept being GREYED OUT as if it was a big conspiracy to drive me NUTS !! now it's there & guess what ? grey icons & folders out the window & let the fresh air in !! DONE ! thanks for pointing it out !

no one has any suggestions about Mail ? maybe i'll post it under another header....

cheers guys !