What's the deal with icons in OS X?
Sheesh, it's like pulling teeth trying to change icons in OS X! I found a custom icon I liked for iChat, so I copied it and pasted it over iChat's default icon. Then I found another that I thought I might prefer, so I pasted the new one over the old one... and nothing happened. So I tried first pressing the delete key and then pasting the new icon in... and the old icon appeared. Restarting finder doesn't work, even logging out doesn't work. Only restarting the entire computer will allow me to see the new icon that I pasted in.
What's the deal with this? I mean, the icon isn't a very big deal, but you'd think they wouldn't go around breaking features that worked for years and years up until now. It's one thing when WindowShade and spring loaded folders were completely cut out, it's another when they can't properly get a certain feature to work. It's just one of those little things that makes OS X seem like it's not really done yet, as if it's still kind of in beta.
What's the deal with this? I mean, the icon isn't a very big deal, but you'd think they wouldn't go around breaking features that worked for years and years up until now. It's one thing when WindowShade and spring loaded folders were completely cut out, it's another when they can't properly get a certain feature to work. It's just one of those little things that makes OS X seem like it's not really done yet, as if it's still kind of in beta.
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Apple has a KB article to it.
<a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107343" target="_blank">Mac OS X 10.2: Pasting Custom Icons Over Custom Icons Does Not Always Work</a>
Still kinda frustrating. Oh well, I'll live.
<strong>no problem, I'm glad to help- just look at Genius Bar.... </strong><hr></blockquote>
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>Ugh, deleting the old icon doesn't work for me (I'm trying to do it with OmniWeb).</strong><hr></blockquote>That is because OnmiWeb (among a few others like Fire) will refresh its icon from the actual icon file in the package contents. You need to replace that file for changes to permanently take effect.
What a weird bug.
<strong>I can't actuallly paste over my Word icon. Why's that?</strong><hr></blockquote>
i had to tinker around in terminal with some unix gibberish (haha, to me it is) in order to change some of the icons. i forget who told me how to do it... but i dont think it was Defiant (sorry dude ). the only one i still cant get to change is AIM!!! leave it to aol...