How do I change MacBook Pro Retina Icons

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Beebs81

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Sep 26, 2012

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• Oct 8, 2012

• #1

Hi there mac experts,
Im a new mac user, just moved over from windows.

I've managed to change my icons by downloading somone from internet but only if they are Unix Executibles Files.

When I paste a jpeg, ico, icns files, the icon shows as blank.

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but how do I create my own icons and what is the format which the latest Mountain Lion oSX 10.



Thanks for your help. The skydrive icon is really bugging me, wouldn't mind throwing in a nice 3d icon.

Thanks again for your help.

 

GGJstudios

macrumors Westmere

May 16, 2008

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• Oct 8, 2012

• #2

How to change the icon for any disk, app, file or folder

 

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Beebs81

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Sep 26, 2012

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• Oct 8, 2012

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Your a star! I didn't realise i had to preview the file first. I was just right clicking them and selecting copy.

Many thanks GGJstudios

 

nontroppo

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Mar 11, 2009

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• Oct 8, 2012

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And if you want a great way of managing your downloaded icons, Candybar is now free (not now so useful for changing system icons, but still a great organiser)

http://www.panic.com/blog/2012/08/candybar-mountain-lion-and-beyond/

And you can get excellent icon sets from the IconFactory that work perfectly with Candybar:

http://iconfactory.com/freeware

 

Dark Void

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Jun 1, 2011

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• Oct 8, 2012

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There are also applications such as LiteIcon that will allow you to change the icons that cannot be changed with the traditional copy/paste method, such as the Finder and Trash.

EDIT: Guy above me beat me to it. =)