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I wanted to register and post my workaround to this stupid situation. It requires that you use alias icons to replace the desktop icons and only covers the desktop icons, so you will have to find another way to change Finder and the bootloader. This limitation didn't bother me as I never use alias icons, use rEFIt for the bootloader, and am not as bothered by the stock icon showing up in finder as I was with it on the desktop.
- First you have to right click on the drive icons and create alias icons for all of your hard drives on the desktop. You can choose any icon you want for the alias icons.
- Next, click on finder and go to the "finder" menu's prefences menu. From here, turn off the display of HD icons on the desktop.
- Last step... go to the terminal and remove the alias arrow icon tags with these two commands (as long as you use "mv" the process is reversable).
* If you can't run the sudo command then you are a smart user and seperated your admin account from your user account. Before you use the above commands you will need to run: "su [insert your admin account here - case sensitive]" and enter your admin account's password. This will give you an admin shell and allow you to run the required commands to remove the alias tags.
Log out and log back in and you should have the new icons without alias tags. Score one for team ocd.
PS- if you want to change the alias comments back, just the same mv command in reverse order (sudo mv AliasBadgeIcon_off.icns AliasBadgeIcon.icns).
I wanted to register and post my workaround to this stupid situation. It requires that you use alias icons to replace the desktop icons and only covers the desktop icons, so you will have to find another way to change Finder and the bootloader. This limitation didn't bother me as I never use alias icons, use rEFIt for the bootloader, and am not as bothered by the stock icon showing up in finder as I was with it on the desktop.
- First you have to right click on the drive icons and create alias icons for all of your hard drives on the desktop. You can choose any icon you want for the alias icons.
- Next, click on finder and go to the "finder" menu's prefences menu. From here, turn off the display of HD icons on the desktop.
- Last step... go to the terminal and remove the alias arrow icon tags with these two commands (as long as you use "mv" the process is reversable).
Code:
cd /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources
sudo mv AliasBadgeIcon.icns AliasBadgeIcon_off.icns* If you can't run the sudo command then you are a smart user and seperated your admin account from your user account. Before you use the above commands you will need to run: "su [insert your admin account here - case sensitive]" and enter your admin account's password. This will give you an admin shell and allow you to run the required commands to remove the alias tags.
Log out and log back in and you should have the new icons without alias tags. Score one for team ocd.
PS- if you want to change the alias comments back, just the same mv command in reverse order (sudo mv AliasBadgeIcon_off.icns AliasBadgeIcon.icns).