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wolfeye155 · Mar 21, 2003, 06:12 PM

I'm tryin to use a small picture as a folder icon. Do you know of an easy way to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

mdc · Mar 21, 2003, 06:22 PM

for some reason i can not get it to look right as a small (16x16 - 32x32) icon.

maybe someone else can work it better

http://mike.cosentino.com/stuff/dib.sit

CharlesS · Mar 21, 2003, 06:34 PM

Originally posted by wolfeye155:
I'm tryin to use a small picture as a folder icon. Do you know of an easy way to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Click that link, choose "Copy" from the Edit menu, paste on folder.

Superchicken · Mar 21, 2003, 07:49 PM

What the!?
I didn't know you could just copy and paste icons! And here I was complaining about apple not having a simple way to do it.. and all you have to do is freakin copy and paste! That's insane! Not to mention it makes me feel like a moron! haha

by the way for your photos and junk, if you download pic2icon it's a sweet app for making icons of any graphic file!

tr · Mar 21, 2003, 08:29 PM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Click that link, choose "Copy" from the Edit menu, paste on folder.

you can't just 'paste' on the folder, can you? just tried it, and it doesn't work. don't you still have to 'get info' on the folder, highlight the folder pic, then paste?

tr

wolfeye155 · Mar 21, 2003, 09:50 PM

Thank you very much! I'll see if I can post a pic of what I was trying to accomplish with this.

[APi]TheMan · Mar 22, 2003, 02:31 AM

Originally posted by tr:
you can't just 'paste' on the folder, can you? just tried it, and it doesn't work. don't you still have to 'get info' on the folder, highlight the folder pic, then paste?

Correct. You still have to get info on the file and select the icon before pasting.

CharlesS · Mar 22, 2003, 02:40 AM

Originally posted by tr:
you can't just 'paste' on the folder, can you? just tried it, and it doesn't work. don't you still have to 'get info' on the folder, highlight the folder pic, then paste?

tr

Yeah, I guess I kinda figured he'd already know how to paste an icon on a folder. Yes, you go to Get Info to do it. The point is, however, that you don't need pic2icon or anything else fancy - just copy a picture into the clipboard and paste it onto the folder. It's worked that way since System 7.0, and anyone who tells you to do it a more complicated way is just wasting your time.

Peter · Mar 22, 2003, 04:16 AM

I like to use Folder Icon X to change folders, its nice and easy to change options.