I’ve been enjoying the use of some free icons to replace the boring blue folder icons on my desktop and within some folders.
Coming up against a really annoying bit. Many of the finer ( less plain ) icons I find are available as PNG or ICN icons. Download what works better. In the case of the Mac ( OSX 10.6.8 ), I can download either.
No matter which choice I make, many of them download fine. I go through the procedure to overlay the new fancypants icon. But, when opening the icon using the " Get Info " choice to copy the icon, the actual icon appears in the Preview area in the column. However, I have to Copy the small version of the icon that appears at the very top, just to the left of the name of the icon.
Problem is this. For many of them, a universal icon is there that reads " PNG " if it’s a . PNG file. The actual icon does not appear up top, so I cannot copy and paste it and use it.
Is there a work-around? The boring childish icons appear as useable. It’s the more interesting ones- from the same free icon site that don’t usually have the smaller icon up top.
Help !?