How to paste custom icons over custom icons

Feb 28, '02 01:44:10AM

Contributed by: crooner

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When pasting a custom icon in the OS X Finder, make sure that the given volume (or folder or file) does not already have a custom icon. If it does, you will get a blank icon, requiring you to either log out and in or re-launch the Finder.

The way around this is to first cut the custom icon, thus reverting the icon to its original default state. Now you can paste away!

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