Macintosh HD icon in finder

[Hat Tric]

Hi everyone,

what's the icon of the disk "Macintosh HD" on a completely new Mac mini M4/M4 Pro?

Can someone post a screenshot? Finder / Go / Computer / right click on "Macintosh HD" and then "Information"

I used migration assistant from my old iMac and have this:

Thank you!

 

[Ben J.]

Copy any image to the clipboard - click on the icon symbol in 'get info' window, top left - paste.

 

[chabig]

To get your icon back to the Mini, select the icon in Get Info and hit delete. That should return it to default.

 

[Hat Tric]

Thanks for the info, but unfortunately it's not possible for the main hard drive. The "Cut" option is greyed out. Perhaps because of missing/different permissions with Apple Silicon / MacOS Sequoia. Also tried booting into safe mode.

The support document from Apple is here:

Change icons for files or folders on Mac

In the Finder on your Mac, change the icon for any file or folder using your own pictures, icons from the web or icons from another file or folder.

support.apple.com

 

[Hat Tric]

Got it. You have to delete the file /System/Volumes/Data/.VolumeIcon.icns

This can be done with your admin account (e.g. your main user). You can do this with finder and say go to folder and point to "/System/Volumes/Data/.VolumeIcon.icns" . This should display this hidden file in finder and then you can delete it. Terminal should also be possible.

Result:

 

[luckman212]

I found the M4 Mini icon:

/System/Library/Templates/Data/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Library/CoreTypes-0021.bundle/Contents/Resources/com.apple.macmini-2024.icns

 

[dmr727]

I've always loved that Apple kept the "Macintosh HD" name from the early days.

 

[Adora]

I found the M4 Mini icon:

/System/Library/Templates/Data/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Library/CoreTypes-0021.bundle/Contents/Resources/com.apple.macmini-2024.icns

Thanks I found icons for my iMac. I thought it always had this grey HDD and now an orange one because it's running from an external drive.

 

[Adora]

Got it. You have to delete the file /System/Volumes/Data/.VolumeIcon.icns

This can be done with your admin account (e.g. your main user). You can do this with finder and say go to folder and point to "/System/Volumes/Data/.VolumeIcon.icns" . This should display this hidden file in finder and then you can delete it. Terminal should also be possible.

Result:
View attachment 2454931

Can I change the icon for one external drive too? This file doesn't exist there and when I try to change the icon by just dragging it in the upper left corner of the drive info, the green dot with a white plus appears but nothing happens.

 

[Adora]

I switched to the root account and there I could just drag it into the info window and that file is now also there.

The home icon changed too. There wasn't any before. 🙂