[ChiLam]

Im a newbie in Mac, please help.

As you can see in the screenshot, its actually a somatic icon but finder treat it as a folder. my question is how do i set it as a icon file and displayed it as a thumbnail preview in 3column view (finder).

Thanks.

[Uncle Skeleton]

To copy icons to other files/folders, select it in the Info window you've got open there (click on the picture part), copy, get info on the target item, select the icon, paste.

To do what I think you're asking, rename the folder to end in .app. this will make the Finder treat it as an application (with nothing inside it, don't worry), and applications show icon previews in Column mode in the Finder.

[ChiLam]

Originally posted by Uncle Skeleton:
To copy icons to other files/folders, select it in the Info window you've got open there (click on the picture part), copy, get info on the target item, select the icon, paste.

To do what I think you're asking, rename the folder to end in .app. this will make the Finder treat it as an application (with nothing inside it, don't worry), and applications show icon previews in Column mode in the Finder.

Thanks, it worked. It's a nature of finder to treat icons as a folder?

[TETENAL]

Originally posted by ChiLam:
It's a nature of finder to treat icons as a folder?

No, it's not.

The question confuses me a little bit though.

Files can have icons (either by assignment to applications or by custom icons in the resource fork).
Folders can have icons (either by being 'special' folders or by invisible icon files inside).
Icons can be stored in icns files (but these files usually don't have the icon that they are).

You're question doesn't fit into anything of this.

[ChiLam]

Originally posted by TETENAL:
No, it's not.

The question confuses me a little bit though.

Files can have icons (either by assignment to applications or by custom icons in the resource fork).
Folders can have icons (either by being 'special' folders or by invisible icon files inside).
Icons can be stored in icns files (but these files usually don't have the icon that they are).

You're question doesn't fit into anything of this.

You misunderstood my question, the screenshot you see is actually a icon but its treated as folder instead of icon, my guess is that finder treat anything with no extention behind it as a folder?

[TETENAL]

Originally posted by ChiLam:
You misunderstood my question, the screenshot you see is actually a icon but its treated as folder instead of icon, my guess is that finder treat anything with no extention behind it as a folder?

The screenshot shows that it is a folder, and I would asume it is actually a folder.

[ChiLam]

Originally posted by TETENAL:
The screenshot shows that it is a folder, and I would asume it is actually a folder.

Why would i download a folder off the net?

[ChiLam]

Here is where i downloaded it from

http://iconfactory.com/preview.asp?t...;query=somatic

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by ChiLam:
Why would i download a folder off the net?

You can paste an icon on anything that appears as an icon in the Finder. This means you can paste icons on hard disks, files, or folders.

Since folders take up no space, it's common practice for icon designers to distribute their icons as folders with icons pasted onto them. This is what you encountered. Those files are actually folders, but they have icons pasted onto them.

[ChiLam]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
You can paste an icon on anything that appears as an icon in the Finder. This means you can paste icons on hard disks, files, or folders.

Since folders take up no space, it's common practice for icon designers to distribute their icons as folders with icons pasted onto them. This is what you encountered. Those files are actually folders, but they have icons pasted onto them.

Yikes! im actually downloaded a folder off the net

Thanks for the explaination.

[dougfm]

Originally posted by ChiLam:
You misunderstood my question, the screenshot you see is actually a icon but its treated as folder instead of icon, my guess is that finder treat anything with no extention behind it as a folder?

Custom icons can be pasted onto any files or folders. As such, custom icons you download are either going to be folders or files with icons pasted on or dedicated .icns icon files.

[TETENAL]

Originally posted by ChiLam:
Why would i download a folder off the net?

Because they have custom icons pasted onto them?

Why Iconfactory distributes their icons on folders instead of on files is something you'd have to ask them.

[ChiLam]

Thanks for all the replies, really appreciated it.