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Change finder icon

Vegerot

Vegerot

macrumors member
May 14, 2009
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Baltimore, Maryland
chubbyman said:
The Application Candy Bar Does Work, But For Those Who Like Me Like To Do Things For Themselves. You Can Also Go To "/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/finder.png" There You Can Change The Finder Icon, The Trash Icon, And Even The Little Poof Thing When You Get Rid Of Dock Files, I Made Mine Black. >> I have done all of these steps but do not know what to do to actually change the picture could you please supply me with the next idiot proof steps

thank you
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Where do you enter it i pasted it into finder but nothing came up? Do I do something in terminal or something?

TheAnswer said:
You can change it using Candybar.
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I got CandyBar but how to you cant drag finder so what do I do?!:mad:
 
elvybeauti

elvybeauti

macrumors newbie
Sep 24, 2008
6
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Denver, Colorado
Do you have Snow Leopard?
I've noticed that since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, just my finder icon changed back to normal (the others stayed the same).
So I don't know if it has something to do with that.
 
Potential4Evil

Potential4Evil

macrumors newbie
Apr 27, 2011
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now ive changed my handbrake and messanger icons but when they are active they change back to the old ones do i need to do the candybar thing in order to fully change them or do i need to delete them?
 
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RasmusM

macrumors newbie
Dec 23, 2008
8
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Summary

Just found this thread via Google, and would like to summarize the conclusions for any other searchers. This works on all systems up to and including Mountain Lion.

  1. You need to be the admin
  2. Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources
    You can do this by navigating in Finder or via Go -> Go to Folder...
  3. Change finder.png and finder@2x.png to your new icons (in png)
  4. Change any other icons you would like to change in the same folder
  5. Reboot the computer. When the display goes black, press and hold [shift] until a status bar appears below the 
  6. When prompted to login, do so, or reboot again to exit safe mode
  7. Enjoy your new icons

Credits:
Previous posters macravin, elvybeauti and especially Sharingan616. His referenced blogpost has been moved from blog.hisname to tumblr.hisname.
 

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Shawzborne

Shawzborne

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Jun 12, 2013
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tag said:
Candybar is now free (it's been discontinued but worked perfectly fine for me on 10.8), and is what I used to change my Finder icon. It may be able to fix your problem if you have lost your icon.
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I'm running mavericks 10.9 hence why I posted here
 
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iCyborg

macrumors newbie
May 12, 2013
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So, I have changed the finder.png and the finder128.png files with new ones, restarted my computer in safe boot, but it just comes up with a blank icon.

I attached a screen shot.

Can anybody tell me how to get the icon working?

I'm running Mac OS X Version 10.7.5
 

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edwardsjosh

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Jun 16, 2014
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A easier way is go to System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app

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A easier way is go to System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
Then drag a image onto the icon in the top left corner.
Next on terminal and type "killall Dock" with out quotation marks
Then it should change the icon

Try this icyborg

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iCyborg said:
So, I have changed the finder.png and the finder128.png files with new ones, restarted my computer in safe boot, but it just comes up with a blank icon.

I attached a screen shot.

Can anybody tell me how to get the icon working?

I'm running Mac OS X Version 10.7.5
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search how to fix missing finder icon
 
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