Get free icons of Mac os x folder in iOS, Material, Windows and other design styles for web, mobile, and graphic design projects. The free images are pixel perfect to fit your design and available in both png and vector. Download icons in all formats or edit them for your designs. As well, welcome to check new icons and popular icons. As part of this association, OS X will adopt icons within the handling program to use with these files. If this association is broken in the launch services, then the system may not know what files your programs are capable of opening, which in turn may have OS X resort to a generic icon for these files.
macOS provides a lot of customization options and one of them is to change apps and folder icons. There isn’t any desperate need to do so, but it’s good to keep things the way we like. It also serves the purpose of confusing people, in case you have colleagues or friends using your Mac without your permission. Here we’ve explained detailed guide on how you can change app and folder icons on Mac with ease.
How to Change App and Folder Icons in macOS
As far as this guide is concerned, we will use the Desktop folder as an example but don’t worry as the process remains the same for any other folder, app, or even website bookmark.
Step #1. Very first thing you’ll need to do is select any image of your choice and copy it to the clipboard by double clicking thepicture to open it in Preview. Now click on Edit→Select All. Next, press Command + C to copy the image to clipboard.
Step #2. To locate the Desktop folder, ensure you are in Finder and press Shift + Command + H. Alternatively, you may also click on Go from top bar and then click on Home.
Step #3. Right click on the Desktop folder icon/name and select “Get Info“.
Step #4. On the info panel of the folder, click on the folder icon located at the upper-left corner.
Step #5. All you need to do now is to paste the image we copied in the first step by pressing Command + V.
You can repeat the same process for any folder. To restore the original image follow Step #3, Step #4 and now press Command + X to cut the image and it will automatically restore the original default image.
For changing app icon on Mac, you’ll need to access Application folder by looking for it in Finder and then select any App for which you wish to customize the icon. Thereafter, follow on from Step #3.
Note: For changing the icon of an in-built app (like Safari), you will need to enter your Mac’s password.
Wrapping up…
There are many websites which let you download icons and icon packs for Mac; search for them. If you are changing website shortcut icon, one good idea is to download the website’s logo and use that.
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Folder Icon Maker 1.5.2
Folder Icon Maker is a tool to customize you Mac OS X folder icon with PNG files. Folder Icon Maker provides an effective way to import your personal and customized icons to create attractive folders.
Folder Icon Maker has 4 different styles of color and 2 options to give you different customized icon effects.
Drag and drop a transparent PNG image file into Folder Icon Maker and it will turn the image into a folder icon for you. If you want to add your new icon to a folder, just drag and drop the folder into Folder Icon Maker. Only two steps to generate your unique folder icon.
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Using a transparent PNG icon file will give you the best results. You can search from the internet with 'PNG icon' to get lots of them.
MAIN FEATURES:
- Change the position of the icon by pressing the left mouse button and dragging.
- Scale the icon size with scroll wheel or trackpad.
- Generate high-quality folder icon.
- Support inserting text on icons.
- Support dragging the existing icons of applications on the desktop into Folder Icon Maker.
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WHAT’S NEW
Version 1.5.2
- add a slider to zoom icon
Mac Os X Icon Sets
- Title: Folder Icon Maker 1.5.2
- Developer: CokeSoft
- Compatibility: OS X 10.6 or later, 64-bit processor
- Language: English
- Includes: Pre-K'ed
- Size: 5.58 MB
- View in Mac App Store