Has anyone managed to make icon changes stick for Dropbox?

So I looked into it and can confirm that both Dropbox and Google Drive (Backup and Sync) refresh their folder icons at startup.

Here is how I managed to get around it:

1. Right-click the Dropbox app icon (in the Applications folder)
2. Select 'Show Package Contents'
3. Browse to Contents → Resources and find the file named "DropboxFolderIconYosemite.icns"
4. Rename the file and replace .icns with .bak
5. Paste your customised .icns file in here and rename it to match the existing file name as above
6. Right-click the newly replaced file and select "Get Info"
7. In the properties window, tick the box called "Locked" and then close the window

The last step is important because if you don't, it somehow manages to revert the image back to the original.

I've successfully done this with both drive folders with multiple restarts and so far all good!

Thanks.

Great idea! I'll look into it, thanks 🙂