Hi Thanks, I looked at one of those icon sets - the ones I have must be missing something because they only have the generic .icns icon.
Stuart On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:19 PM, westwit <[email protected]> wrote: > Stuart, > > I went to the link for mac support in your post and followed a link to > one or two sites to download free icons. At http://iconfactory.com/freeware > I downloaded several icon folders. Once on your mac you just open one > of these icon folders, select an icon and right click to 'get info'. > In the top left corner of the long info window that opens up you will > see the icon; highlight it and copy it (cmd-c). Then select the file > or folder you want to have this icon and repeat the 'get info' > selection; after highlighting the existing icon at top left simply > paste (cmd-v) the icon you previously copied. It worked fine for me. > It may be to do with the image type? > > Good luck. > > On Apr 28, 12:28 am, Stuart Dunkeld <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have some .icns icon files I want to use as desktop icons. I have >> changed my Mac HD icon successfully, but I had to use terminal for >> that - I don't seem to be able to use them in the 'Get Info, Copy, Get >> Info, Paste' cycle as described here -http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2493 >> >> Anyone got any hints? I'd like to be able to set finder-y things like >> downloads, home, etc. I've tried copying the icon file itself and >> pasting it into Get Info on the target but it isn't working - - >> currently my home folder has the generic .icns icon which isn't what I >> want at all! - are there perhaps requirements on the image types >> contained in the .icns file? >> >> Cheers >> >> Stuart >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
