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Find the app whose file icon you want to change Right click it and select 'Show Package Contents' Navigate to Contents/Resources/ and find the appropriate icon file. Replace it with your new icon file. Adding an application, file, or folder to the Dock is as easy as 1-2-3: Open a Finder window that contains an application, a document file, or a folder you use frequently. You can also drag an icon — including a hard drive icon — from the Desktop or any Finder window. Click the item you want to add to the Dock. Jul 29, 2014 The OS X Yosemite - Official Icons Pack includes the latest icons from OS X 10.10, ready to use on earlier versions of OS X. Instructions on changing system app icons are included. Jun 04, 2019 (The following guide can be done on any version of Mac OSX.) Download the icon pack here (iTunes one can be downloaded from here) You can change an icon by navigating to the app; Right click and press the “Get Info” button; Select the icon that is located on the top left of the “Get Info window” (marked in red on the image bellow). It’s not on every Circle and Square icon in Yosemite, but it can be seen on the stroke highlights on the outside of the Circle icon, on the metallic (iPad-like) edge on the square icons (e.g., Terminal, Activity Monitor, System Preferences), on bevels, and on every metal paired with the tilted rectangle (e.g., the pen in TextEdit and the.
I much prefer the look of OS X Yosemite over Mavericks and earlier versions, but unfortunately it's taking some apps a while to catch up, Google Drive is a prime example:
In some cases it might be possible to drag and drop a replacement icon into the info screen (via 'Get Info') but this doesn't work for Google Drive as it refreshes it's icon for the root shared folder every time the app starts.
Fortunately it's quite easy to change the icons over permanently and someone has even gone to the trouble of creating new icon files for a number of popular apps and shared them on Google Drive.
OS X uses files with the extension icns for folder and app icons, you simply need to find the offending file within the app package and replace it.
- Go to your Applications folder and find the Google Drive app.
- Right click and choose 'Show Package Contents'.
- Browse to Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/resources/images.
- Replace the files 'folder-mac.icns' and 'sharedfolder-mac.icns' with the icns file from the link above or another icon of your choice.
- Quit and restart Google Drive.
After a short delay, you should see the updated icon:
It seems that my last post about Adobe's launch of their new 'Brackets' modern text editor generated more discussion around the OSX Yosemite dock icons in the lead image than anything else.
I received a bunch of messages specifically about the Sublime Text and Sketch icons. To that end, here's a selection of great looking OSX Yosemite dock icons you can download and apply to your own apps to achieve the same kind of look.
Below the icons is a quick guide on the easiest way to update your system and application icons. Don't worry, I've got you sorted!
OSX Finder
by Arvid Bräne (dribbble)
Settings Preferences
by Michael Martinho (dribbble)
Safari
by Marc Keeley (Deviantart)
1Password
by Jason Zigrino (Deviantart)
Adobe CC
by Jason Zigrino (Deviantart)
Brackets
by cvangilder64 (Deviantart)
Slack
by Diesel Laws (dribbble)
Firefox
by Santiago Ramos Panalés (Deviantart)
Microsoft Office
by hamzasaleem (Deviantart)
Pixelmator
by thebadsaint (IconArchive)
![Yosemite Yosemite](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6NXsFTtTJhE/maxresdefault.jpg)
![How to change app icons on mac yosemite windows 10 How to change app icons on mac yosemite windows 10](https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*AuT0GXEd7j21RI6uXlxYTQ.png)
by Jason Zigrino (Deviantart)
Sketch
by Mehmet Gozetlik (dribbble)
Skype
by Jason Zigrino (Deviantart)
Tweetbot
by Jason Zigrino (Deviantart)
Sublime Text
by Thomas Vagning (dribbble)
Weather
by Alexander Hansen (Deviantart)
How to change your icons
There's a few manual methods out there to get the job done, but the good folk at Freemacsoft have done all the hard work for you bundling the process into an easy-to-use application called LiteIcon.
Scorekeeper app for mac. It's a free download for OSX Mavericks and Yosemite users, so check it out.
Oh, and one last thing..
How To Change App Icons On Mac Yosemite Mojave
It's worth mentioning that it's best to use .icns files for this kind of thing. So if you get your hands on a decent .png icon at any stage, head on over to the iConvert Icons website where you can easily create and download the appropriate .icns file 'for Finder'.
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Links & Credits
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- All icons credited to their respective artists above
- Liteicon System Icon Changer // freemacsoft.net
- iConvert Icons // iconverticons.com