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Summary of wrong icon when copying disk image
Authored by: noworryz on Feb 08, '03 03:45:33PM

To summarize the thread:

This tip for when you want to copy a mounted disk image by option-dragging it somewhere (such as your Applications folder). When you do so, the copy (now a folder) shows up with the "mounted disk" icon rather than a plain folder icon.

Like robg, I thought this was a "feature" of OS X, rather than a bug, and had been wasting time doing a "Get Info" of another folder, copying the icon, doing a "Get Info" of the newly-copied disk image and pasting the plain folder icon over the "mounted disk" icon.

It turns out that the icon is really a bug, probably caused by the way OS X caches icons. There are many ways to get rid of the unwanted disk icon:

  1. log out and back in
  2. relaunch the finder by clicking on the desktop, pressing Command-Option-Escape, pressing return twice, then pressing Command-W to close the "force quit" window.
  3. refresh the icon using the "refresh" contextual menu item provided by the "FileUtilsCM" tools you can obtain at free.abracode.com/cmworkshop.
  4. do what the author of this tip suggests: do a "Get Info" of the newly-copied image, click on the icon, do a copy, do a paste, do a delete (or a cut).
  5. or finally, just forget about it and wait for apple to fix this bug.


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