Any way of assigning icons to folders in OSX?

Hate · 19 Jan 2007 at 23:47

Long story short, i've deleted the Music and Videos folder in my home directory and replaced them with symlinks to my larger hard drive, however the offshoot of this is that in the sidebar its got the boring blue folders.

Any way of applying the old folder icons?

Mr Jones · 19 Jan 2007 at 23:53

You should be able to change the icon on your HDD, find an icon you like from sites like

http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/index.php?sort=date

download it, copy (apple+c) then right click on the folder in your HDD, "get info", click on the icon on the to left and then paste (apple+v).

Then re-drag back to the sidebar?

Does that work?

toosepin · 20 Jan 2007 at 01:21

Alternatively, some application and system icons (trash/finder etc) require software such as CandyBar to replace the icons.

Will_3rd · 20 Jan 2007 at 11:41

I've always found this link useful.

http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/customize/6/