Have an image for the new icon you’d like to use, jpg or png often works best.Click the app you’d like to change the icon for and use the keyboard shortcut command + I (or right-click and choose Get Info).Open Finder and navigate to Applications.How to change Mac icons for apps, folders, documents This name was selected to make it impossible to conflict with human entered filenames.Whether you want to revert to an app’s previous icon, customize your apps, folders, documents with a theme, or make them match the modern macOS Monterey look, read on for how to change Mac icons.Ĭhanging Mac app icons is a simple and painless process and can be fun to do for a custom macOS look and feel. CR is the line termination character in Mac OS classic. But because folders did not have resource forks a different way to store the icon was needed and so engineers came up with the idea of a hidden file. The "Icon?" files are ancient technology from Mac OS classic where (if I remember correctly) custom icons were stored in the resource fork of a file. Loosing the Finder flags is not uncommon when you transport your files through hostile territory as Google or Windows land :) If that is not the case on your system, you'll see the file in the Finder. The capital V means the invisible bit is set. You can use the getFileInfo tool to see the Finder flags: $ getFileInfo Icon^M The file itself is not visible in the Finder (but you can see it in the shell). When setting a custom icon on a folder this is where the Finder stores the image.
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