![]() If at any point you want to revert to the default icons, open LiteIcon and select File -> Restore all icons….If the changes you made don’t appear right away, try logging out of OS X and then log back in (that’s what I had to do to change the Movies icon). Your desktop icons and dock will momentarily disappear, and any open Finder windows will close. Click the Relaunch Finder button in the upper right corner of LiteIcon.You’ll be prompted to enter your password. When you find one that you want to replace, drag the icon file from a Finder window to its respective location in LiteIcon.Use the buttons/tabs at the top to see which icons can be changed with LiteIcon. The main LiteIcon interface will appear.I add the password and click on Modify Configuration. 5- Another window pops up saying: Finder is trying to modify the Directory Services configuration. The installation is is simple as unzipping the downloaded file and then dragging LiteIcon.app to your Applications folder. 4- Filled in the User Name, Password and Verify. Start by downloading and installing LiteIcon.Note: as of “El Capitan” (macOS 10.11) you cannot change the System icons, only the App and Volume icons. ![]() Again, don’t make any changes if you don’t know what you’re doing and haven’t backed up the Mac, you can easily mess something up and render things in Mac OS X quite odd looking by misappropriating icons, incorrectly modifying a file, or using an inappropriate size.This brief tutorial will show you how to use LiteIcon, a free program that allows you to change your OS X System icons. Regardless of what method you use to edit or change the icons, you will need administrator privileges to save or make any changes to the files stored here, given that this is a /System folder. icns file directly in Preview or another image editing app. icns file can be modified or changed, either directly by copying over the icns file, using copy and paste much like changing most other icons on the Mac, or even by editing the. This insures that you can revert things back to normal if you mess something up. icns files first, and preferably, back up the entire Mac beforehand with Time Machine or your backup method of choice. There is an NVIDIA web driver update now for the Mac Pro 3,1 and LiteIcon now. If you have any intention on changing a system icon or several of them, do back up the original. I am usually an eager updater, but Im holding off updating to macOS High. Modifying system icons is generally not recommended, particularly for novice users. For example, we used one of these hardware icons in a walkthrough demonstrating how to change the Dock Finder icon. This folder also happens to be where a whole bunch of high quality Apple and Mac hardware icons are located, which are used by System Profiler, for networking, and by iTunes, but you can copy them and use them for other purposes too if you feel like it. You can use the ‘search’ function to break it down by specifics, narrowing down by ‘Folder’ will show you only the default folder icons used on the Mac: You’ll find the directory contains tons of “.icns” files, these are the raw icon files for various system icons, including the default folder icons used for Applications, Documents, Desktop, Downloads, Developer, Generic (the default for a new folder), Group, Library, Music, Movies, Pictures, Public, and quite literally every other default icon, like mounted external drives, network volumes and computers, iPhones, Macs, and just about everything else.Īll of the Mac OS X default icons are stored here. The folder is best viewed in “icon” view with a reasonably visible icon size, which perhaps isn’t too surprising considering this the system icon folder. Choose “Go” and you’ll instantly be brought to the appropriate resources folder containing all system icons for Mac OS X that are found throughout the Mac.Paste in the following complete file system path in Go To Folder:.Open a new Finder window from the Mac OS X Desktop and hit Command+Shift+G (or go to the “Go” menu and choose “Go To Folder”.How to Locate & Access All Mac OS X System Icons We’ll cover the latter method, since it’s usually the quickest and most user friendly. To get there and to find the Mac OS X system icon resource files, you can either manually navigate to the given system folder from Finder, use the Terminal, or better yet, use the excellent Go To shortcut and jump their immediately. System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ For those who just want to poke around and already know why, the location of Mac OS X system icons is the following path:
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