Candybar icons won't change

[jrsx]

I am not able to change an applications icon by drag-and-drop into the icon well without a problem - when I do, it always shows the 'preview' icon, which is obviously not what I want. Can anyone help here?

 

[eyoungren]

Hmm…I'm not an expert with Candybar. Once you drag and drop, isn't there like an 'Apply' button that you need to press for the change to actually happen?

 

[jrsx]

Hmm…I'm not an expert with Candybar. Once you drag and drop, isn't there like an 'Apply' button that you need to press for the change to actually happen?

Yes, but when I hit apply it looks like the icon below.

 

[eyoungren]

Yes, but when I hit apply it looks like the icon below.

Try using a .ico format icon. I don't think you can drag/drop a .png and expect it to work.

 

[jrsx]

I've tried .ico, as well as others exported from preview. No formats work.

 

[jbarley]

I am not able to change an applications icon by drag-and-drop into the icon well without a problem - when I do, it always shows the 'preview' icon, which is obviously not what I want. Can anyone help here?

This has always worked for me…

open the file you want to use in Preview.
from the Preview edit menu,-select all, again from the edit menu,-Copy,
now paste this into your Application icon in the 'Get info section'.

 

[Nameci]

I don't use png's and ico's with candybar. I only use icns.

 

[jrsx]

Nothing works. CandyBar is killing me right now. I tried importing too, and it shows a blank icon that you can click on, but it's completely blank. I wanted to use candybar because when I manually change the icon, Macintosh HD doesn't show the icon png in the preview to the left of the writing (below).

 

[jrsx]

Can anyone help? I've tried literally everything. I'm building a Mavericks icon collection for PPC, and it won't import to candybar. It just shows black icons when I import or drag anything in.

 

[Hughmac]

http://www.img2icnsapp.com/
Love it, use it a lot to make Mac icons from any picture including Windows .ico files ...

Cheers 🙂

Hugh

 

[jrsx]

http://www.img2icnsapp.com/
Love it, use it a lot to make Mac icons from any picture including Windows .ico files ...

Cheers 🙂

Hugh

Hey, thanks! That works a lot better! The only problem is candbar doesn't show the icons as centered in the icon well, but it makes no difference. Thanks!