My Trash Icon

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  1. mcolon85, Jan 21, 2009

    mcolon85 macrumors newbie

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    Good morning, I am really new to Mac ( just got my macpro last week) and I have been changing icons succesfully. I don't know how it happened exactly, but my trash icon located in the dock is not there anymore. I can still open it, and if I put my mouse over it it says ''trash'', but somehow the icon is not there. Can somebody help me with this? I would really appreciate it.
     
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  2. GSMiller, Jan 21, 2009

    GSMiller macrumors 68000

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    It sounds to me as though the Trash icons have been deleted. Go to:

    Macintosh HD > System > Library > CoreServices > right click CoreTypes.bundle, select Show Package Contents > Contents > Resources

    This folder will show all your system icons. Look for the icons titled FullTrashIcon.icns and TrashIcon.icns

    If they're not there, just find a copy online or something and drag them to that folder with those file names and extensions. If they are there but for some strange reason aren't working, you can download a program called LiteIcon that will let you change your Trash icon.
     
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  3. Horst, Jan 21, 2009

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    Try on your own risk: open trash, get info (cmd-i), click the upper left icon window to highlight, then hit delete , might have to restart the Finder.

    That should reset the icon to the original one.
     
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