Changing usb drive icon.

has external hard disks have own icon, I would to have one for pendrives.... because I use a lot of, and I have to guest what is a mounted disk image or what is a pendrive.

The method I have used involves only use of Finder. A generic method . Get a suitable icon. Select it. Copy to clipboard. Highlight icon to be changed. Click Command +I. In the information box, highlight the icon at the top left of the box. Do a paste. Paste the contents of clipboard to the place of the standard icon. Two things . Make it a jpeg or Tiff and not some esoteric format. Make it a decent size. Secondly you may find you don't own the file whose icon you want to change. This OS user does not own the Mac Hd volume. System can read and write, Admin can read and write. the rest can only read. To get round that, other than using an admin login, temporarily add the user logged into to the permissions list. Temporarily give that user read write permission. Perform the paste then reverse the user addition etc. You do this with the users with the bottom section of the Command+I box. Click on the lock. Authenticate. Click the plus sign at the left. From the dialogue that pops up choose the desired user then with the double disclosure arrows, choose read write permission. BUT do change the things back to the default once the icon is changed.
One can either make one's own icon up or browse the web for the sets of free ready mades. I took a backup app icon to use for the appropriate backup partition of an external HD.

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What usually works well is to plug the flash drive back in. With luck it will appear on the desktop, and be accessible. That is when you should unmount the drive properly. To unmount the drive, do one of the following -
• Select the drive by clicking its icon once, then press Command-E (Eject in the File menu).
• Right-click or Control-click the icon for the drive, and select Eject from the contextual menu that appears.
• Drag the icon to the Trash. The Trash icon will change to an eject symbol when you're partway there - keep dragging it all the way to the Trash, drop it into that symbol.
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Changing Windows drive icon in boot loader

Hi. I found this guide on how to change the windows drive icon in boot loader. I followed the steps but when i want to copy the ._ICON file, there is no such file on the list and Terminal won't let me copy it.
When i go to the /Volumes/ directry and type "ls -la" i get the list:
drwxrwxrwt@ 5 root admin 170 Jan 31 17:40 .
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drwxr-xr-x 1 differenxe staff 4096 Jan 31 2009 Untitled (this is the Windows drive)
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Oops, i forgot to add the link to the guide. So here it is: http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Personalizeyourbootloader

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I found these links. Don't know if this helps.http://osxdaily.com/2014/07/27/mac-os-x-system-icons-location /http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/location-of-mac-os-x-system-icons.html https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1252385?start=0&tstart=0

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You can change the icon for all networked drives but not just one. You'd use something like Candy Bar do do it.

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I always have converted .png files to .icns files. You can do this for free from iconverticons.com. Click on Use iConvert icons Online.
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Hello,
I put the computer to sleep when I'm going to be away for awhile and overnight. When I come back and wake it, my USB drive does not appear on the desktop. I have to restart the iMac to get it to come back.
Also, when I plug my iPod in, iTunes updates it and then within 10 minutes, the icon does not show on the desktop but I can see the iPod in iTunes.
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Thanks,
Brad

I did run the hardware test and everything passed.
For about 3 hours last night, everything was working fine. This morning the USB drive icon is there but not the iPod. I think I will try the OS reinstall but not for about a week. I will be out of town all next week and can't get to it before I leave.
Something may have gone wacky while loading some application. A couple of the suspects would be Adobe Lightroom beta 4 or Google Earth. This issue only started within the last 5 days or so and I think those are the only applications I've loaded in that time.
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what make me really mad is that i repeated the same exact process but with another folder called "mp3" in the same usb drive and the mp3 files i selected played in itunes without a hitch! so what is going on here? i lost some important files in my blackberry folder and when i looked at the hidden trash.bin files by plugging the micro sd/usb drive into a windows pc, the size of the trash files are 0k and 4k. there's nothing in the trash files at all.
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I want to know if this behavior is normal.
I have a 300GB USB drive (formatted as Mac OS extended (journaled)) connected to my mac mini with its power on all the time. When I start up the mini after the USB drive has spun down I get the regular startup chime plus 3 lower volume startup chimes. The activity light on the USB drive flashes during the 3 chimes. Then the system starts normally with the USB drive icon on the desktop.
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I got my mac mini in March.
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I did create an USB drive with three bootable partitions;
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I haven't had chance to test but bless looks promising…
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Hi, my Ipod Schuffle (4 gen) dissapears from windows vista right after I execute Itunes, I've change the drive letter, erase temps in App data file, verified USB drivers, etc... Can someone guide on how to solve this?

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If you want the shuffle to be always visible in Windows (outside of iTunes), you need to Enable disk use.
Select the shuffle in the iTunes sidebar, under DEVICES. Over to the right, select the Summary tab. You should see a checkbox that says Enable disk use. Check it and click Apply.
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How in the HECK can I change my Hard Drive icon??!??!!

I've tried searching these discussion forums for how to do this, but the question has always remained unanswered! Does ANYbody know how to use this? I'd buy applecare but I'm a student and can't afford it. Would somebody please figure out how to make it so that you can paste a new icon on top of the standard icon for 10.3.9? It's driving me crazy that after I copy the icon I want to use for my hard drive that I can't paste it on top.
And I've tried doing a permissions repair in Disk Utility.
400 MHz PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

That's how other people do it, HVlaar; it's the standard procedure. Works fine for me. Are you logged into an admin account? Have you considered that changing your hard drive icon probably isn't an important thing to do anyway?

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