Change disc icons in OS X Lion?

Anyone know how to do this?
I tried following the example for Snow Leopard found here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2493
This does not work on Lion. No image will show now on my usb thumb drive now.
Any other way to do this?
Thanks

Tried that. Still showing the same thing. I am going to try a re-start see if that helps.
Thanks for your help.

Similar Messages

Changing folder icons issue

I'm suddenly having a problem in snow leopard (mac os x 10.6.8) that I haven't had before in older versions. When I use copy and paste to change a folder's icon, the folder then contains an 'icon exec' file that I do not want there. If I trash it, the icon on the folder gets trashed as well. Anyone know how I can change the icon without having to now include that 'icon exec' file in the folder? Thanks.

Just rebooted into 10.6.8 to see if its behavior was any different than 10.7.2, which I now use most of the time.
No change - in Lion or Snow Leopard, when I added a custom icon to a folder, an invisible file was added to the folder's contents. This file is named just "icon" with no extension, and does not display the exec icon - it displays the generic blank page with turned-down-corner icon. I used FileBuddy to do the looking, since invisibles are visible to it.
The icon I used as a source was one derived from a JPEG image. I opened the image in Preview, did a Command-A (select all) to select the entire image, then Command-C (copy) to place it on the clipboard, then did a Get Info on the folder's icon and pasted (Command-V) the image onto the icon in the upper left.
Perhaps the difference stems from the nature of the source image you are using?

How do I change the icon of a usb?

I just recently updated to OS X Mountain Lion, and it doesn't seem to let me change the icons of my usb drive.
I use .icns type files, but it comes up as an ugly broken image. Anyone else have this problem?
Any help would be very much appreciated.

Hi,
Use the method setIconImage (in Frame class).
/Kaj

Remote disc icon?

Hi,
Just got one of the new Mac minis and it's a cracking wee machine. One small question, however. I re-installed OS X and under devices as well as under Computer I have a cd icon saying 'Remote Disc'. I understand that this is for installing OS X across a network or sharing a disc but why is the icon there? Shouldn't it be there only if I have cd or dvd sharing on?
This is on a clean install (10.5.6) nothing changed, wireless connection. I've got a unibody Macbook and a Power Mac all running Leopard and none of them seem to show the icon.
Apologies for the really dumb questions but gets me wondering why it's there by default.
Cheers guys!
Message was edited by: dunes

dunes,
I have the same experience with my new Mac Mini.
None of my computers have DVD/CD sharing turned on.
Even if I turn on DVD/CD sharing on any my computers, none of the other computers show a Remote Disc in the sidebar.
This Remote Disc has never showed up on any of my computers until I got this new Mini.
There doesn't seem to be much info on DVD/CD sharing that I can find. It doesn't appear that anyone is using this feature except for owners of the MacBook Air.
At this point, I would just like to get rid of this Remote Disc icon and get back to normal.
I have found 3rd party documents on how to turn this feature on for non MacBook Air users, but nothing to turn it off.

How do I change the default on shutting down Lion to NOT relaunch open windows?

How do I change the default on shutting down Lion to NOT relaunch open windows? And how can I have Safari always open in full screen mode? I have to set it every time I open Safari.

The feature you are talking about in System Preferences does work and is not related in any way to the one at startup.
One restores the windows of an application you've quit, the other reopens all windows you had open at shutdown or restart.
Why should "I" have to constantly turn off a checkbox when I shutdown the system?
You don' t have to. Did you have a look at my post just above yours? With a double click you can have your restart without opening the last open windows. That's less than clicking the apple icon and selecting "restart" or "shut down" and then clicking "Restart" or "Shutdown" again.

Hard Disc Icon Disappeared

Titanium PowerBook, 1 GHz, OS 10.4.11
My hard disc icon has disappeared from the desktop and the sidebar of Finder windows. The only places I can see it are in the Disc Utility and occasionally when saving from some apps, and then it's often greyed out so I can't access it. I've made sure that the Finder prefs are set to show hard discs, and my external disc does show - it's only the internal drive. CD and DVD icons all show.
I've run Disc Utility off the install disc and did a repair because it found a problem. Repair was successfully verified but didn't bring the icon back.
Also reset the PRAM with no change.
Also changed the icon using CandyBar thinking that maybe the icon itself was corrupted. No luck.
The computer runs fine but occasionally I use that part of the disc that's higher up than my User folder and that's the source of frustration. Also worried that it may be a sign of the drive failing. It's the 2nd drive I've had in this computer, about 3 years old now.
Any thoughts on this anyone? Ideas to bring back my icon (and access)?
Thanks!

I had my Macintosh HD icon disappear from my Desktop & Finder as New Years Day present! I tried the Finder preferences & deleting the com.apple.desktop.plist file which made no difference. Fortunately the Applescript reference above at http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/invisible.html fixed it straight away.
Have a great 2009
EauMan

Can't change Finder icon

Hi everyone,
I am trying to change my finder icon after installing Mountain Lion but am having problems doing so.
I have tried using applications such as Candybar and LiteIcon but neither of them work and the default finder icon just won't change, even after a restart.
Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone have a fix I could try? Thanks for your help.

Oh no, I'm sorry it didn't work for you!
It took me three attempts, but yes it was the only image I replaced. What I did was made a copy of the original finder.png first so that I had a backup. Then I replaced the original finder.png with my new finder image. I followed this post found here: http://macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=858576#p858576
This is all I did so hopefully it'll work for you somehow. Good luck!

Disc icons on RAID disc

I just mounted two seagate 500Gb discs on my Mac Pro. I used the raid option to make them work as backup but so far I haven't started adding any data
I'd like however to change the icon of the disk from the default to something else. Although I've done this quite a few times with various other external drtives, I think that I can't change the icon of the raid group. Can I change the icon or am I stuck with the default?

Wait, case may not be closed...
You say you configured the RAID to work as a backup. There is no RAID configuration that can possibly be used as a backup. So I am hoping you are not relaying on a mirrored RAID set as a backup.
The reason a mirrored RAID is not a backup, is because no data is ever retained when a file is changed or deleted. That is, the process of making a change to a file, or deleting a file is replicated on all drives that make up the RAID set. If you accidently delete your checkbook data, it's gone, you can't get it back from your RAID set. If you need to look at files to see what you were doing two months ago, and you have made changes to those files since then, poof, it is gone, no way to return to that data.
Mirrored RAID is not a backup. It's main purpose is to provide redundancy of hardware to insure that if a drive should fail that you can continue to operate with all data intact, as you make any needed hardware repairs or replacements. Mirrored RAIDS are to hep insure the maximum amount of uptime on your data storage system.
So if your intent was to use a mirrored RAID array for backup, please reconsider. If you were instead using the mirrored array as it was intended, please forgive my slight rant about what mirrored RAIDs are for.
Thanks,
Tom N.

External hard disc icon locked!

Hello, I can't change the owner on my fw hard disc
here you can see: the hard disc icon has a lock on it, I cannot delete file from the hard disc and I cannot copy file on it.
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/5834/privilegihdye3.jpg
If I ask for the info, any action I do has no effect... please help!

there is really no default settings for permissions on an external drive (unless it's a bootable drive). you can choose them at your convenience. If you are the only user I would probably make you the owner and staff the group and give both yourself and staff read+write privileges. However, as I said there are no defaults and you use whatever is most convenient. Having root as the owner is not the most convenient thing btw. I would change it to yourself (and group to staff). wheel is a bad group to have there as normally root is the only member of the weel group.
the terminal command for that is
*sudo chown `id -un`:staff /Volumes/WesternDigital*
It can also be done from the get info panel for the drive.

I have an older 8GB iPod Touch no longer supported by tech. It is locked up in "Restore" mode and fails to respond to 2-button reset. I get the apple logo and then it pos back to the cord and disc icon for restore. Any advice?

I have an older 8GB black iPod Touch (no bluetooth) no longer supported by tech. It is "locked" in restore mode. When I do a 2 button reset I can get the Apple logo but then it pops back to the synch cord-and-music disc icon indicative of restore. Any advice?

Hello honeycrisp70,
For that error, check out the article below for additional troubleshooting to get it sorted out. If it continues then you may need to contact Apple support.
Resolve iOS update and restore errors
http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS3694
Check for hardware issues
Related errors: 1, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 1000, 1002, 1004, 1011, 1012, 1014, 1667, or 1669.
These errors mean that your device or computer may have a hardware issue that's preventing the update or restore from completing.
Check that your security software and settings aren't preventing your device from communicating with the Apple update server.
Then try to restore your iOS device two more times while connected with a cable, computer, and network you know are good.
Confirm that your security software and settings are allowing communication between your device and update servers.
If you still see the error message when you update or restore, contact Apple support.
Regards,
-Norm G.

Is there a way to change the icon associated with icloud account?

Is there a way to change the icon associated with my iCloud account? It's currently a rose and i do not like it.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
Are you referring to your iCloud account picture or your user picture?
It looks like you are referring to your user picture. To change it, open System Preferences > Users & Groups, press the picture box and choose the user picture you want from the ones that came by default. If you want to select a different picture stored on your Mac, drag that photo onto the picture box.
If you want to change your iCloud account picture, open http://www.icloud.com and log in with your Apple ID. Then, press your name at the top right of the site and press the user picture. If you put the cursor on the picture box, you will see a button at the top of the box to change your picture

How I change the icon for iTunes songs?

When I drag iTunes songs onto my desktop the icon is white with a gray iTunes icon. How can change this icon for all of my iTunes songs?

Thanks Patrick. I used Control-Click on the actual audio file on my desktop opened the Show View Options menu and turned off the icon preview option. That changed my icons from gray with a white background to red with a white background which is exactly what I wanted. You pointed me in the right direction. Appreciate it.

Change .pdf icons to generic icon instead of preview image

How can I change the icon of a .pdf on the desktop to the more generic red and white Adobe logo instead of the little preview picture? With the old-style icon it's easy to determine what's a .pdf - with everything a little preview now (which is too small to tell anything, at least for me) I have to actually read the file name to see what type of file it is.
Not the end of the world but it would be nice to change.
thanks

What app do you want your PDF files to open with when they are double-clicked?
If you click on the Desktop, type Command-J, and in the Desktop's view-options window uncheck the box for "Show icon preview," you will convert all the Desktop icons to whatever image the default "Open with" app has provided. If you have set Adobe Reader as the default app for PDF files, the icon will look like this:
!http://i55.tinypic.com/2r4hf6p.jpg!
If you have set Preview as the default app, the icon will look like this:
!http://i51.tinypic.com/264noea.jpg!
I don't know of an automatic way to have PDF files display an Adobe icon and still have them open in Preview when double-clicked.

When I click on a link in an RSS feed it used to indicate that I'd viewed that particular link by changing the icon to the left of the link. It doesn't do that anymore. [SOLVED]

When I click on a link in an RSS feed it used to indicate that I'd viewed that particular link by changing the icon to the left of the link. It doesn't do that anymore. This started happening right around the time I updated to Firefox 4, but may have been a little before that too. For some things, like news and web comics it's just a little annoying. For important things like looking for new journal articles for my job, it literally makes my job more difficult. So fixing this would make my day.

I seem to have solved my own problem. When I disabled the add-on "Tab Renamizer" everything started working fine.

Change Dock Icons on OS 10.8.5

Hi Mac Community!
For all of us Mac lovers, the one thing we are fascinated with is the fact that Mac in notorious for giving the end user the power to personalize the computer's look and feel, as well as making commands extremely user friendly.
This is not what I get from the last update to OS 10.8.5
I want to change the icons on my dock, as I should being that I am the owner of a fairly expensive piece of equipment, but this seems impossible to do for the Finder icon. Is there any way this can be done without causing any problems in the system?
Any ideas are appreciated! THANKS!

You want to change the Finder icon or you want to remove the Finder icon from the dock. You weren't clear on that point

Change disc icons in OS X Lion?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for