Ever wanted or wondered how to get a custom finder icon on your mac…
…If so heres how you can do it
-| Go to: [ /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/ ] & located your [ finder.png ] file…
-| Once located, copy it to a safe location as backup…
-| Next find the icon you wish to use & rename it as finder (all in lower case) & make sure its in “png” format…
-| After that drag your icon into your [ /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/ ] folder in finder…
-| Now that you have your new icon pasted over in finder, you need to located your “iconcache” file & delete it. To do so simply open terminal & type “sudo find /private/var -name *iconcache*”. If your are unable to find your “iconcache” file using that command then you do not have one & can just skip down the post a bit to where we use some more terminal commands…
-| Simply press enter when you have that typed in & copy the output. Load your copied location in a finder window…
-| In your newly opened finder window located your “iconcache” file & delete it. You should be able to find it as “com.apple.iconcache”…
-| Once your have the file deleted load terminal again & type “killall Dock” then press enter…
-| The code your just typed into terminal will restart your dock. Once your dock has restarted, take a look at your finder icon & note that it has now changed to your custom icon…
[ PLEASE ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR SYSTEM OR DATA BEFORE TRYING ANYTHING LIKE THIS, AS THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR ERROR ]
[ IF YOU WISH TO RETURN YOUR FINDER ICON BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL LOOK, SIMPLY LOCATE THE ORIGINAL FINDER ICON & REDO THE STEPS ABOVE ]
