[Curiosity]

Does Snow Leopard not make resource forks when one changes an icon for a file or folder? Tiger used to, and if you viewed hidden files, you would see those, but doing that on Snow Leopard does not show any additional files in the directory.
When images are saved, the icons are shown as little thumbnail pictures of the original if one views them with icon view. Are these thumbnails resource forks or not? If I saved pictures with a Snow Leopard image editor, the thumbnails appear in list view as well, but not otherwise. How does that work?

[CharlesS]

The custom icons do indeed get stored in an 'icns' resource in the resource fork for files. For folders, they are stored in an invisible 'Icon\r' file inside the folder.

[Curiosity]

I see the resource fork files in the folders I customized, bur I do not see any extra files for the ogg vorbis music files in the same directory, and I changed the icons for every one of them. Are they now incorporated into the data files somehow?

[CharlesS]

You're not going to get extra files unless the files reside on a file system that doesn't support resource forks. Otherwise, the resource will just go in the resource fork.

[Curiosity]

Ok, thanks.