Icon replacement resulting in very blurry icons

Since upgrading to mojave, whenever i replace icons of folders, the image is extremely blurry. This worked fine in previous macOS versions.

Any ideas what this is about?

MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)

Posted on Sep 26, 2018 3:05 PM

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sduck409 Author

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Oct 5, 2018 1:51 PM in response to Mickey BlueEyes

Perhaps you misread the previous posts, as your post makes no sense in the context of this thread.

Nov 6, 2018 12:02 PM in response to leroydouglas

128 x 128 res 144 : works fine too.

Apparently; Although Mojave doesn't force the icon into a square anymore,

it still demands it !!!

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