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just finally did my Yosemite update. omg who chose the folder color? how to change ALLL!!! thanks

please help change color...this is hard on eye

Posted on Jun 11, 2015 4:21 PM

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Jun 11, 2015 4:37 PM in response to Kappy

my folder on desktop were yellow..have now turned a shade of bright blue.

i had Mavericks Os..been away for while from this imac, back home and just ran the yosemite update today.

I've been searching for answer but to no avail.

I want to change the default folder color, so when adding new folder it wont be blue

thanks

Jun 12, 2015 12:09 AM in response to ms868iMAC

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To change Yosemite's folder icons to less saturated versions:

1. Download and install LiteIcon into your Applications folder. LiteIcon is available @ http://www.freemacsoft.net/liteicon/.


2. Create a new folder on your Desktop and give it a name.


3. Press the Option-Command-Spacebar keys to open a Finder window. Press the Shift-Command-G keys and type or copy/paste the following text into the "Go to the folder:" text input field and press the Enter key:


/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/


4. Type "icons" (without quotes) into the Finder search box and select "Apple icon image" from the pop-up panel. Click the "+" button to add search criteria. Click the "Kind" button and select "Name". Click the "matches" button and select "contains". Type "Folder" into the text input field.


5. Hold down the Shift key and select the folder icons you want to change. If you want to deselect an icon, select it while still holding down the Shift key. Drag the selected icons to the new folder you created on your Desktop to copy them. Hold the cursor over the folder until a window opens and release, or if you just dropped the icons onto the folder, select the folder and press the Command-O keys to open it. Press the Command-A keys to select all the icons. Press the Command-O keys to open the icons in the Preview application.

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6. With the Preview window open, navigate your mouse cursor to the sidebar and click the disclosure triangle to the left of each icon's title to reveal all the images of each .icns file. You will need to to scroll down the sidebar to do this. You will notice the images get more diminutive until you reach the next .icns file .


7. Press the Option-Command-C keys to open the "Adjust Color" inspector. Select the first icon image in Preview's sidebar. Slide the Saturation slider in the adjustment inspector to the value of your choice. Leave the mouse cursor where it is on the slider control. It will be much easier to change all the icon images to the same saturation value if you use a trackpad and "Tap to click".

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8. Press the Down Arrow key to move to the next icon image. Tap to click the trackpad to set the saturation level. Repeat the two steps until the saturation level is set for all the icon images. Once you've changed all images, you can check that the saturation levels are consistent by pressing the Up Arrow key to move up to the next image. If the saturation slider doesn't move, the saturation level is the same for all images. Note: you can also change any of the other parameters using the sliders if you want to change more than the saturation, or instead of the saturation.


9. Press the Command-A keys to select all the images. Press Command-S to save them. Press the Command-Q keys to quit the Preview application.


10. Open the LiteIcon application. Select "Folders" in the sidebar. For each icon that you want to change, drag the icon from the new folder you created with the desaturated icons and drop it onto the corresponding icon in the Icon pane. For instance, drag and drop ApplicationsFolderIcon.icns onto "Apps" and release. Repeat for all the icons you want to change. If you want to revert to the original icon, drag the selected icon from the pane.

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11. Click the "Apply Changes" button. A pop-up panel will prompt you for your password. Enter it in the text input field and press the Enter key. A dialog will slide down and provide you with a chose of "Later" or "Clear Cache & Log Out". If you choose the latter, you will be logged out of your account and will need to log in. Save any changes in open applications before proceeding. Once you log out you will need to log back in. You now will be able to view the changed folder icons.

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Jan 9, 2016 7:39 PM in response to landxrover

landxrover wrote:


This no longer works. Apple has made it so you can no longer use Liteicon to change any system icons in Yosemite. FYI

As tested on my system LitIcon can still be used to change system icons using OS X Yosemite v10.10. Perhaps you are referring to OS X El Capitan v10.11. Apple has added a layer of security to OS X El Capitan called System Integrity Protection (SIP), which one of its functions removes the ability to write or modify files in the root System folder. You can learn more by watching the WWDC 2015 session video Security and Your Apps, or reading the transcript. El Capitan ships with SIP enabled by default. Under this condition LiteIcon is limited to changing icons for your apps and volumes.


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Full functionality of LitIcon can be restored by disabling SIP from the Recovery OS and running the csrutil command in Terminal:

bash-3.2# csrutil status

System Integrity Protection status: enabled.


bash-3.2# csrutil disable

Successfully disabled System Integrity Protection. Please restart the machine for the changes to take effect.


Only the user can decide if the ability to customize the appearance of system icons is worth disabling the added layer of protection SIP provides in protecting personal data and its role in hardening resistance to malware exploitation by reducing the attack surface.

Jan 9, 2016 9:23 PM in response to landxrover

As described on LiteIcon's website, you can set a custom configuration for SIP to temporarily disable filesystem protections only, make the icon changes, and enable SIP again:


bash-3.2# csrutil status

System Integrity Protection status: enabled (Custom Configuration).


Configuration:

Apple Internal: enabled

Kext Signing: enabled

Filesystem Protections: disabled

Debugging Restrictions: enabled

DTrace Restrictions: enabled

NVRAM Protections: enabled


Keep in mind that with future system updates you may lose any changes made as this message states when running the csrutil enable --without fs command:


bash-3.2# csrutil enable --without fs

csrutil: requesting an unsupported configuration. This is likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state.


Use at your own discretion. As always, backup all data before making any changes to your system.

just finally did my Yosemite update. omg who chose the folder color? how to change ALLL!!! thanks

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