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eyoungren

eyoungren

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Don't know about anyone else, but I like to personalize my drive icons.

Here is the icon for my boot drive…

YF14_SATA_1T Info.png


The icon for my secondary drive…

YF14B_SATA_4T Info.png


And this icon is for the Time Machine backup drive which is connected via a USB dock. This last icon has a little bit of meaning because it's the very first icon I ever personalized with. It's survived 18 years without me losing it from the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California and the Arizona Capitol Times in Phoenix to Pueblo Publishers (where I work now) in Glendale, AZ.

YM14B_USB_1T Info.png


You might be beginning to see a theme here… :)
 
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eyoungren said:
Don't know about anyone else, but I like to personalize my drive icons.
Here is the icon for my boot drive…
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The icon for my secondary drive…
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And this icon is for the Time Machine backup drive which is connected via a USB dock. This last icon has a little bit of meaning because it's the very first icon I ever personalized with. It's survived 18 years without me losing it from the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California and the Arizona Capitol Times in Phoenix to Pueblo Publishers (where I work now) in Glendale, AZ.
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You might be beginning to see a theme here… :)
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Ah, great idea. I also like to replace drive-icons (with different coloured apple-icons, which I thankfully learned here in the PPC-Forum)
But I guess you will need to change tea&coffee-cup icons, as soon as you're going to use an SSD/mSATA... ;)
 
bobesch said:
Ah, great idea. I also like to replace drive-icons (with different coloured apple-icons, which I thankfully learned here in the PPC-Forum)
But I guess you will need to change tea&coffee-cup icons, as soon as you're going to use an SSD/mSATA... ;)
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Nah, just drive names, LOL! :D
 
I should change my PPCs' drive icons that are named after Pokémon...

Is it possible to just copy a .png as the drive icon? And do they show up when you file share on other Macs? :)
 
Slix said:
I should change my PPCs' drive icons that are named after Pokémon...

Is it possible to just copy a .png as the drive icon? And do they show up when you file share on other Macs? :)
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The way I do it is to 'Get Info' on an icon and then click on the icon on the top left. Copy. Get Info on the drive icon, click on the icon on the top left. Paste.

You can also open an icon in Preview, select all, copy, then Get Info on the drive icon and then select it on the top left and paste.

You just want to make sure that the icons you select have transparency (around the edges). Otherwise you'll get a white square background behind them.
 
eyoungren said:
Don't know about anyone else, but I like to personalize my drive icons.

Here is the icon for my boot drive…

View attachment 701723

The icon for my secondary drive…

View attachment 701724

And this icon is for the Time Machine backup drive which is connected via a USB dock. This last icon has a little bit of meaning because it's the very first icon I ever personalized with. It's survived 18 years without me losing it from the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California and the Arizona Capitol Times in Phoenix to Pueblo Publishers (where I work now) in Glendale, AZ.

View attachment 701725

You might be beginning to see a theme here… :)
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Creative names! :D
 
AmazingHenry said:
Creative names! :D
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It's a system. :)

First part identifies the group, the drive media and the number I've given the Mac/drive. The second part identifies the interface of the drive and the third part identifies the capacity of the drive.

YF14_SATA_1T = (Y)oungren (F)ixed 14, SATA connection, One terabyte.
YM20_USB_268G = (Y)oungren (M)obile 20, USB connection, 268 gigabyte
YV14_RAM_2G = (Y)oungren (V)olatile 14, RAM disk, 2 gigabyte

When it comes to the fixed drives they reflect the number of the Mac. For instance, my Quad is Youngren14 while my 2.3 DC is Youngren17, my PowerBook is Youngren7 and my MBP is Youngren3.

The naming applies across all my devices. My iPad is YM16-iPAD-16G, short for (Y)oungren (M)obile 16, iPAD, 16 gigabyte.

Just a system I came up with when trying to keep track of all my unique names was becoming a problem. This way I know everything I need to know in one name. The numbers for USB sticks and iDevices are a little looser as I've had multiples coming and going.

Thanks! :D
 
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jbarley said:
Anyone happen to know just where these "custom" drive icons are stored in the OS X hierarchy?
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I believe it's an .icns file that's stored in the Resources folder of the app package.

Ex.:
-Applications-Firefox.app.png
 
Here: /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/
(but I couldn't find the icon for usb-drives)
Some nice cup-of-coffees at /System/Library/CoreServices/... "Jar..." and "Java..."
Haha, and finally I found an icon for my Windows-VM's
...
 

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Pretty mundane drive icons on my desktop. Aside from my zipdrive icon, I'm using stock leopard icons.

icons 6-13-17.jpg


I'm stuck in the past ... and I like it. I mean I can't help it if Apple's millennial geniuses can't design icons worth a darn. :p
 
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With the addition of my new drives, I thought I'd bring this up again.

Here is my drive list. YF14C and YF14D are showing the drive icons I used to use when I had more than two drives attached to my Quicksilver.

Finder.png


Nice to have them back.

And yes…there is a theme here. :D

EDIT: A bit larger…

Finder 2.png
 
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