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Can't Change my iCal Icon

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mashinhead

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I use change my icons, at least the dock ones to make them look uniform. I usually manually change them, (copy, ctrl+i, paste) but for ical i had a problem. I did the normal routine and it did work. It changed the icon to what i wanted, until i opened the program. Then it changed it back to the default icon. So i used Candybar to do the samething, and the same thing happened. I did this for about 20 icons or so, and they all changed, except for ical. Well it did change initally but when i opened it, it reverted.

Anyone know why? This isn't a big deal, i'm curious though.
 
actually there is a way to have a different icon even when the app is open. but you'd have to edit the package contents. and make sure it will has a space for the number change to show up otherwise the number will still be over-laid on top of whatever you change it to. i've played around with this a lot. and its quite frustrating.

in the end... it wasn't worth it.
 
You might head over to the iconfactory and look through their past sets...I think one of the Smoothicons sets might have had a blank calendar with instructions for where inside the iCal .pkg that file goes.

Long story short...I think you can change it, but it's a pain and most people that make icon sets don't bother with the blank calendar one.
 
I replaced the App-empty.icns file inside the resource folder of the iCal package with a custom icon (iCal/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns), which was fine as long as the program was running. When iCal was quit, it reverted to the standard icon with current date.

There is another App-empty.icns file inside the iCalDockExtra.bundle package in another resource folder (iCal/Contents/Resources/iCalDockExtra.bundle/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns). After I replaced that file as well, iCal remains customized at all times.
 
nefasdicere said:
I replaced the App-empty.icns file inside the resource folder of the iCal package with a custom icon (iCal/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns), which was fine as long as the program was running. When iCal was quit, it reverted to the standard icon with current date.

There is another App-empty.icns file inside the iCalDockExtra.bundle package in another resource folder (iCal/Contents/Resources/iCalDockExtra.bundle/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns). After I replaced that file as well, iCal remains customized at all times.
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THANK YOU!!! This has been bugging me for hours. I just started playing with Candybar again and iCal was my lone issue. I found the one empty icon, but the second was hiding. I missed that package, I only looked in folders. Good catch!
 
What if you had an icon that had a black background, and needed the color of the date text within the icon to be white? How could you change the text color? Maybe even the placement?

Thanks,
J
 
nefasdicere said:
I replaced the App-empty.icns file inside the resource folder of the iCal package with a custom icon (iCal/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns), which was fine as long as the program was running. When iCal was quit, it reverted to the standard icon with current date.

There is another App-empty.icns file inside the iCalDockExtra.bundle package in another resource folder (iCal/Contents/Resources/iCalDockExtra.bundle/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns). After I replaced that file as well, iCal remains customized at all times.
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Thanks a lot. I finally know how to do this.
 
I'm having a slightly different kind of problem. The iCal icon works fine when the program is running, but when it isn't running, I don't have any icon at all! It just shows the date: http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/2284/picture1nkl.png
I don't know what I did to make it disappear but it's rather frustrating. I think it looks quite cool, actually, but it doesn't match the rest of my dock so I don't want to keep it that way.
 
iconical

mashinhead said:
I use change my icons, at least the dock ones to make them look uniform. I usually manually change them, (copy, ctrl+i, paste) but for ical i had a problem. I did the normal routine and it did work. It changed the icon to what i wanted, until i opened the program. Then it changed it back to the default icon. So i used Candybar to do the samething, and the same thing happened. I did this for about 20 icons or so, and they all changed, except for ical. Well it did change initally but when i opened it, it reverted.

Anyone know why? This isn't a big deal, i'm curious though.
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***You can download an application called iconical and it will let you change the color of your ical icon - that's the best that i can do, since the icon itself is really meant to show you the date. it doesn't work in snow leopard, but it does work in regular leopard osx
 
nefasdicere said:
I replaced the App-empty.icns file inside the resource folder of the iCal package with a custom icon (iCal/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns), which was fine as long as the program was running. When iCal was quit, it reverted to the standard icon with current date.

There is another App-empty.icns file inside the iCalDockExtra.bundle package in another resource folder (iCal/Contents/Resources/iCalDockExtra.bundle/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns). After I replaced that file as well, iCal remains customized at all times.
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I've searched EVERYTHING in iCal.app/Contents/Resources and it just isn't there! I've been looking for about 2 hours straight! Is there any way I can search for it or possibly it got renamed in Snow Leopard? :(
 
iCal in Snow Leopard

I did this when 10.6 was released, but, as I remember, there are still two files that must be replaced (in addition to the App.icns of course).

1. Still at (iCal.app/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns)

2. Now at (iCal.app/Contents/Resources/iCalDockTilePlugIn.docktileplugin/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns)

That should do it after a reboot.
 
nefasdicere said:
I did this when 10.6 was released, but, as I remember, there are still two files that must be replaced (in addition to the App.icns of course).

1. Still at (iCal.app/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns)

2. Now at (iCal.app/Contents/Resources/iCalDockTilePlugIn.docktileplugin/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns)

That should do it after a reboot.
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Thanks, worked perfectly!
 
Is there anyway to get the date not to show? I'm using really simple text icons and I don't like the number overlay on my text.

Thank you.
 
iCal App iCon did not change

For some reason this did not work for me. :confused:

I followed the previously mentioned steps but it did not work.

Am I missing something? ...any thoughts?

Thanks
 
Figured it out finally. Probably not the simplest way but hey it worked for me.

Maybe this will work for you UngratefulNinja.

Instead of replacing the actually icon you can edit/adjust the original files.

The following files will need to be edited and are found from the following instructions as previously stated.

nefasdicere said:
I did this when 10.6 was released, but, as I remember, there are still two files that must be replaced (in addition to the App.icns of course).

1. Still at (iCal.app/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns)

2. Now at (iCal.app/Contents/Resources/iCalDockTilePlugIn.docktileplugin/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns)

That should do it after a reboot.
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And open up each file and follow these instructions http://www.usingmac.com/2007/11/9/leopard-change-ical-icon-color

For Black when you adjust the color move the following sliders only:
Exposure and Saturation all the way to the left.
Contrast a little past half (closer to 75%).

Also make sure when you open each file in preview you adjust the color for each picture in the file (5 total, Big to Small)

Depending on your disk permissions you need to authenticate and move the original file to the trash and then move the new file to the proper folder where it is replacing the original.

Like I said this is just what I found to FINALY! work for me after many other failed attempts at other methods.

Hope this helps.
:apple:
 
Example of finished Black iCal

Closed
screen-capture.png

Opened
screen-capture-1.png
 
I have custom icons in my dock now, But the Calendar icon is a bit bigger size then the rest of my custom icons..

Are there any files in the content-map where to change the size?

The icon itself is the same size as the rest, but i belive some codes makes it bigger
 
Thanks nefasdicere

Thanks so much nefasdicere: that worked and I've been trying SO long to fix this; thought I had all the Show Package Contents/Contents/Resources icons covered! But this was a newbie.....thanks :rolleyes:

nefasdicere said:
I did this when 10.6 was released, but, as I remember, there are still two files that must be replaced (in addition to the App.icns of course).

1. Still at (iCal.app/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns)

2. Now at (iCal.app/Contents/Resources/iCalDockTilePlugIn.docktileplugin/Contents/Resources/App-empty.icns)

That should do it after a reboot.
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