I'd being doing the old way since System 7, it never occurred to me that the first Get Info in the sequence was no longer necessary.
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Not sure when they slipped this in, and it's a tad obvious if you think about it, but on my 10.3.3 machines, you don't have to bother opening the Get Info window for the source custom icon. Instead, you can just hit Command-C on the object in the Finder, then Command-V into the custom icon field of the Get Info window for the destination object. If the file you copied isn't an image format, the Finder knows to paste the icon instead of doing nothing.
I'd being doing the old way since System 7, it never occurred to me that the first Get Info in the sequence was no longer necessary.
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Skip a step when pasting custom icons
Good one. I want the 72 minutes I've cumulatively spent doing that over the last couple of years back!
Useful CM Plugin
For an even faster way to change icons, check out the freeware FinderIconCM (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19478) which allows you to manipulate Finder icons without having to open a Get Info dialog at all. This CM plugin can also store frequently used icons, combine a folder and an icon, batch remove icons and allows detailed viewing of icons. The author has cooked up a bunch of other useful CMs as well: http://www.pixture.com/.
Use Show Inspector, not Get Info
Hold down option when you select Get Info and the menu changes to Show Inspector. Option-Command-I does the same trick. Then you can use one window for the source and destination icons.
Re: Use Show Inspector, not Get Info
Ahh, it's like the pre-Jaguar Get Info behavior. That's a tip unto itself. :-) |
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