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Those are the basics of icon customization in OS X.

CHANGE DEFAULT APPLICATIONS MAC OS X PASSWORD

Enter your password if necessary, and your icon will be changed back. If you want to revert to the default icon, simply open the info panel, click on the icon as if you’re going to replace it, and hit the “Delete” key instead. If it turns out you don’t like it, you can use a different one. You can change your icons to virtually anything you want. If you want to see this reflected in the Dock, simply start or restart the application. You will be prompted to enter your user password to change an application’s icon, but once you do, your new icon will be used instead of the old.

Here’s our Safari info, which we find by opening our Applications folder (“Shift + Command + A” in Finder or from the Go menu), clicking on it and then using “Command + I” (or right-click “Get Info”).Īgain, just like with our folders, click the little icon in the upper-left corner so it has a blue border around it and then paste (“Command + V”) the clipboard’s contents. We open it with Preview and see it has quite a few icons contained within it, so which one do we use? You actually don’t need to choose one, simply select them all with “Command + A” and then copy using “Command + C”. icns file that we found on a website and it seem to suit our needs perfectly. We want to change our Safari icon, not too drastically, just to something flat.

CHANGE DEFAULT APPLICATIONS MAC OS X HOW TO

Let’s show you an example of what we mean and how to use. icns, which is an Apple icon library file. You can also find icon files that have the extension. png format with a transparent background. That said, you will run into various images and formats along the way, many of which may not be ideal as an icon. Remember, you can use any picture, so if it can be opened in Preview, it can be copied and probably used as an icon. It’s not just folder icons, however, you can change application icons as well using the same method. You can go through and change any or all of these folders, which will then be reflected throughout the system in titlebars and even in your sidebar’s favorites if you want to use color icons instead of OS X’s default gray ones. Now, simply paste the clipboard contents by pressing “Command + V” and your Desktop’s folder icon will be changed. Click the icon in the upper-left corner so that it has a blue border around it. This works in all versions of macOS and Mac OS X.Select the item, in this case our Desktop folder, and either right-click and select “Get Info” or more easily, use “Command + I” to open that item’s information panel. then only that single file will be affected. When you double click on this file type in future it will open in the newly chosen default application. Click on Continue to change the default application associated with that file type.Ī files contextual menu with options to Open With: and Change All.The following message is displayed: 'Are you sure you want to change all similar documents to open with the application “-”? This change will apply to all documents with extension “.-”.'

Click on the application you wish to become the new default and then click on the Change All.

If the application you want is not in the list you can search for it by clicking on the Other.

You can then choose an application from the dropdown list to select as the new default application associated with all files of that file type.

Click on the arrow next to Open with: to expand that section.

Click on Get Info to open a contextual menu about the file.

Click on an application from the list to open the file with that program.

The default application at the top of the list is the application that macOS launches whenever you double-click on that file type.

Click on Open With to view a list of applications that can open the file.

Locate the file that you want to open and right-click on the file (or control+ left-click if you have not enabled secondary click in System Preferences > Mouse / Trackpad).

Double click on a file to open it with its associated default application.

To open a file in its default application

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