When I open 'Get Info' copy my icon over the default and it applies it but it never shows it. It only shows the default PNG icon (with the pictures and the camera).

Does anybody faced the problem before? I can't figure out any solution to change the file icon.

Thanks for looking.

3 Answers

You have to paste the contents of the image instead of the file. For example open the image in Preview, press ⌘A and ⌘C, open an information window for the target file in Finder, click the image well in the top left corner, and press ⌘V.

You must be copying a PNG file.

Note that Mac OS X uses icns files as icons. So, first convert your PNG to ICNS and then repeat the steps you did before.

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For me, the solution was to:

• create a new folder,
• paste the copied image onto its preview icon in the Info dialog,
• drag the contents of the old folder into the new folder,
• delete the old folder, and
• change the name of the new folder to that of the old folder.