How To Change Mac OS X Leopard Icons

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[Mac only] Customizing a folder icon help it to easily stand of from the rest in a directory. In Mac, changing a folder icon is fairly easy. You can do it without assistant from any 3rd party application. Full guide after jump.

Changing a folder icon in Mac

First find an icon you want to use. Here we use the Photoshop [Ps] icon as an example. Click to select the application. File -> Get Info (Command + I) to launch application info.
Click the icon to select it, Edit -> Copy (Command + C) to copy the icon.

On the icon you want to change, File -> Get Info (Command + I) to launch the folder info, click on the icon and do a Edit -> Paste (Command + V).

Voila, your folder now have new look.

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Comments

mr me February 14th, 2008

wow, so much easier than anything I read anywhere else on-line on how to do this!

thanks…seriously.
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Russ February 22nd, 2008

Yeah I know how to do that, but what I wanna know is how to change the system folder and the users folder, they seem to just be locked or something.
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N. March 26th, 2008

This is wonderful! thank you so much for this. The question now is, how to get the old Icon back if that is possible! Thank you.
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hongkiat March 26th, 2008

Well, I’d recommend that you keep a copy before replacing them.
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Andrew Roazen April 10th, 2008

No, just select the custom icon and then select Cut from the Edit menu. The default icon will be restored.
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kelly May 7th, 2008

You can just highlight the icon again like this, and do Edit>Cut and it restores the original icon.
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denshitenki May 26th, 2008

Does anybody know how to change the all icons at once?
I mean, not one by one like in the example here but all the folders that are the same.

Thank you!
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Pman July 1st, 2008

use candybar…nice application for changing icons, dock etc.

enjoy your new icons
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Berger September 11th, 2008

does this apply when a folder is mounted to the dock? i may have to restart to see that??!?
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lala October 9th, 2008

how to restore the mac original icons if i ever did the same as u taught( File -> Get Info,Edit -> Copy,File -> Get Info, Edit -> Paste )? as I found that if i use candybar to change icons, the folder icon that i’ve changed earlier using ur methol (as the way u said above) wont get to change, yet i’ve to manually change it again.

how to default the icons setting? and where is the default icons folder in mac os x?
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