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Anybody got an Alum iMac icon with *Leopard* desktop?

RumMunkey said:
Right-click on your "Macintosh HD" (or whatever you've renamed it) and take "Get Info". Leave this wondow open and we'll come back to it in a sec.

Do the right-click / get info thing on your "whatever.icns" file as well.

On the "Get Info" window of the icon you want to set as the new one click the little preview immediately to the left of the file name. Click it just once and look closely for the blue halo that surrounds it. It might be hard to see.

Here's a pic to help:
powerbook_g4_info-20071106-120036.jpg


So, you're clicking that little preview-icon where my cursor is, right? OK...

When it's selected, cmd+c. This copies the icon to your clipboard.

Now, back in the Get Info window for the Mac HD, click once to highlight (blue halo looking thing) the icon in the same place.

Now cmd+v. It will paste the icon you copied.

Close both windows. You now have a single custom icon.




There are apps, btw to replace ALL icons, but me I just want the HD icon to look like, you know... the computer it's on. ;)
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Thanks, but I know how to do this. Here's the problem, when I do the get info on the .icns file I want, it does not show the little image of the file, it shows this:

1891259564_0ea8ed0e30_o.png
 
Oh! Weird. Maybe open her up in Preview first?

If not, try the app I linked to and convert it (even though it's already converted, maybe that will fix something).

Beyond that I'm lost. Sorry.
 
ok, i got it.

What I did was opened it up in preview, then hit edit > Select all, then copy.

Then i pasted it and it worked.
 
mmendoza27 said:
I did this on my old Tiger MacBook Pro... but I'm wondering, when you replace the original HD icon, where does that reside? For instance, if I were to replace the HD icon right now, what if I wanted to put it back to normal?
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cmd + i on the disk that you wanna revert the icon to default on. Single click the icon that i at the top of the info windows, and press cmd + x
 
Is there some reason why I can't replace my "Macintosh HD" icon? I'm doing it like everyone says, and it doesn't work. Is it because the hard drive is being used right now? Is there some kind of Terminal command that lets me do this?
 
kkat69 said:
Go into System\Library\CoreServices\CoreTypes.bundle (show contents)

and you'll see a lot of 512/512 icons and if you open one you'll see (in preview) all the size icons then just nab the one you want.
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Awesome, never knew those were there. Why are they there when they don't even use them for anything? They even have a bunch of OS9 looking icons and stuff.
 
powerbookje said:
I don't think so, you have to login using the GUI as an administrator
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Yup, this did it. I had to login as "root." Shame, really, I have to go to all that trouble just to change an icon. Whenever you need admin access, they should just prompt for that "Authenticate" window.
 
I used to do the copy-paste trick in Tiger to replace the hard drive icon, but it's not working that way in Leopard (as others above have indicated). There's no way around this other than logging into the UI as root?
 
kkat69 said:
Go into System\Library\CoreServices\CoreTypes.bundle (show contents)

and you'll see a lot of 512/512 icons and if you open one you'll see (in preview) all the size icons then just nab the one you want.

icons.png
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Well I got to preview but I cant use my normal copy and paste method to get them where I want (HD icon) can anyone tell me how to do this correctly?
 
pscoble, are you using iConvertor to make the icons? You can't paste a .png file to use as your icon.

I had some trouble using the program at first, but you have to make sure that you are clicking "Use File Contents" in the source file section of the box. If done correctly, you will see a preview of the icon in the window to the right of the program box. If not, you will just see the standard .PNG file icon.


If you've verified the file is a .icns, then the method of copy and pasting with the blue halo around the icon should work just fine.
 
thanks but help

RumMunkey said:
Right-click on your "Macintosh HD" (or whatever you've renamed it) and take "Get Info". Leave this wondow open and we'll come back to it in a sec.

Do the right-click / get info thing on your "whatever.icns" file as well.

On the "Get Info" window of the icon you want to set as the new one click the little preview immediately to the left of the file name. Click it just once and look closely for the blue halo that surrounds it. It might be hard to see.

Here's a pic to help:
powerbook_g4_info-20071106-120036.jpg


So, you're clicking that little preview-icon where my cursor is, right? OK...

When it's selected, cmd+c. This copies the icon to your clipboard.

Now, back in the Get Info window for the Mac HD, click once to highlight (blue halo looking thing) the icon in the same place.

Now cmd+v. It will paste the icon you copied.

Close both windows. You now have a single custom icon.




There are apps, btw to replace ALL icons, but me I just want the HD icon to look like, you know... the computer it's on. ;)
Click to expand...

Where your arrow cursor is I just have a preview program icon and not the picture of the iMac. All icons that I open show the same TIFF picture and not the picture of the icon itself... help
 
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