Now that it is so fashionable to change the icons of a system, We inform you that in OS X you can also change the system icons, yes, since you make a restoration of it from a backup copy all the changes will disappear.
OS X system icons are not readily available to users. To reach them you must know a certain sequence of directories, since otherwise it would be impossible to locate them. In this article we teach you how to reach them so that, if you want, you can follow the steps that our colleague Miguel Ángel Juncos He explained to you to change a determining icon for another.
As we have mentioned, the icons of OS X Mavericks, and in the future those of OS X Yosemite, are located in a certain directory safe from the hands of users, so the system can stay the same For ever and ever, amen.
However, like a thousand other things in OS X, We can get to the folder that contains the files of the system icons in a very simple way. Inform you that each of the icon files has the extension .icon. This type of file is a container that is capable of holding multiple image files in .tiff format.
Inside the .icon files, you will find as many .tiff files as needed in the system for that icon with different sizes. The first file you find is the largest and then it gradually decreases.
The steps you must follow to get to the folder that contains the icons is:
- We sail to MacintoshHD> System> Library> CoreServices
- Now we must look for the package called CoreTypes.bundle
- The next step is to display the contents of the package, to which selected by right clicking on the previous file.
A folder opens automatically in which we will navigate to Contents> Resources.
But there are not all the icons. Those for CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R ... etc, even the main hard drive, are elsewhere. Where?