[Freeman]

Hi can anyone give me some suggestion on installing an icon on my OS 9 ?
Cause every time I click on the icon that I download ,I receive the message say " The document cannot be open ,the app that create it
cannot be found "

Freeman

[San Acoustic]

Freeman, there are no icons to download. The document will open automatically only with the application that created it. If you don't have the application that created the document, the document won't open. The document automatically takes the icon of the application that created it.

Sometimes, however, another application can open the document without too much problem, but in that case a window pops up offering you a choice of applications existing on your computer. If that doesn't happen, you can try opening it with other applications by starting them and going under OPEN in the File menu and attempting it that way. If that doesn't work, your choice then is to acquire the application that created the document or acqure MacLink, an application loaded with translators -- filters -- that may be able to open the document.

One other possibility: If it is a word-processing document causing the problem, the application BBEdit may be able to open it. It is a text reader. The "Lite" verson is on the web and can be downloaded.

Good luck.

[andi*pandi]

Umm, I don't think that was his question.

A) Don't post tech questions in the suggestions forum.

B) When you download icons, they are most lilkely just folders that have a cute pic for an icon... .double clicking on em can't open em, they are not a document.

Select the icon, hit apple-i, once in the info pallette, select the icon, apple-c to copy. Select the boring icon you wish to replace, hit apple-i, then select it in the pallette and hit apple-v to paste.

More at www.iconfactory.com--they have neat icons to download, instructions, and a shareware app for even easier icon installing.

If someone is posting huge photoshop files and labeling em icons... sheesh. But you'll need an image editor. Sometimes when a document has been downloaded, it loses its "identity" so the OS doesn't know which app to open it with. Open an image editor (photoshop, appleworks, painter, graphic converter) then do file> open on the document. Add a .tif, .jpg, etc to it and see what happens.

[Cipher13]

On top of what Andi said, a lot of icons are in the ResEdit format - download a copy of ResEdit to open them with...

Cipher13