Jan 12, 2013 - Learn how to change the icons of your favorite Mac apps without. It is required that the new icon file retains the original name in order for this.

This article shows you how to change the icon of any file or folder on your Mac. Apart from adding a bit of personal style to your desktop, there are good practical reasons why you might want to do so. For example, perhaps you've dragged some folders to your Dock so that you can easily drop items into them, but you don't want to have to keep hovering your mouse over their generic blue icons to identify which is which. By necramar To customize a file or folder icon, simply follow the steps below. You can use your own pictures as icons. Alternatively, there are a wealth of icon libraries hosted online, so you could try a web search for free icon pack downloads for Mac.

Note: If you find icons online in the.icns format, you can drag these icon types directly onto the icon in a file or folder's Info panel, thereby skipping the Preview steps described below. • Double-click the picture or icon you want to use to open it in your Mac's built-in Preview app. • Choose Edit -> Select All in Preview's menu bar, or use the keyboard shortcut Command-A. • Choose Edit -> Copy in Preview's menu bar, or use the keyboard shortcut Command-C. • Next, right-click (or Ctrl-click) the file or folder whose icon you want to change and select Get Info from the contextual menu.

• Click the icon in the top left of the Info panel to select it. • Choose Edit -> Paste from the menu bar, or use the keyboard shortcut Command-V. • Click the red traffic light to close the Info panel, and you're done. If you want to revert a file or folder to its default icon, open its Get Info panel again, click the icon in the panel to select it, and choose Edit -> Cut or use the keyboard shortcut Command-X. You can also select and copy ( Edit -> Copy) a file or folder's icon in its Info panel for use elsewhere. Is it possible to go back and forth in Finder by swiping left or right with the mouse - like it's in the Windows Explorer by default with the side mouse buttons? Yeah, I use BetterTouchTool ('to do that.

You'll have to add the shortcut yourself, but it isn't difficult. I made a post about this amazing app almost 4 years ago, still using it and it's still very handy.

I've added more gestures in the meantime, but the post is still handy to get you started: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/bettertouchtool-gestures.1693622/.

According to macosxhints.com, in 10.6 the icons for standard Mac OS X applications (or even Apple software in general) might no longer be easily changed, as the application folders are kind of read-only. One could of course change those access rights, but changing the package contents might break the 's signature for that application. And if the signature becomes invalid, then applications might no longer be allowed to access the keychain, will no longer be allowed an exception in the firewall if it's known to check its own integrity (known to have caused trouble for ), or might cause trouble when using software update. (Above, might indicates that I am not sure. Some quick tests changing the iTunes, Safari and Activity Monitor icons did not break the Code Signing, though for some other, yet unknown reason the firewall might repeatedly ask For more details see ). Old topic I know, but better than raising a new one. This is relevant to the question.

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