Re: setting file/folder icon by AS ?

Subject: Re: setting file/folder icon by AS ?

From: Yvon Thoraval <email@hidden>

Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:15:41 +0100

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Le 6 nov. 06 à 14:07, Luther Fuller a écrit :

The 'setFile' command has a custom icon property that may work. Some time ago I tried to set a folder icon with setFile, but could not get it to work. I did notice that a folder with a custom icon has either

1. an invisible file named "icon

" (That's "icon" & return) or

2. An invisible file named ".VolumeIcon.icns"

yes you're right, if i look into folder on which (using get info command+i) i do have paste a custom icon i get :

~/Pictures/Folders/folder_cobalt%> ls -al

total 128

drwxr-xr-x 3 yvon yvon 102 Nov 6 14:52 .

drwxr-xr-x 39 yvon yvon 1326 Nov 6 14:52 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 yvon yvon 0 Nov 6 14:52 Icon?

then as you've writen the ? stanfs for the return on the terminal ?

also you're other case :

~/Pictures/Folders/folder_cobalt%> locate .VolumeIcon.icns

/.VolumeIcon.icns

/Applications/.VolumeIcon.icns

[...]

/Users/yvon/work/RubyCocoa/VLCRecorder/dist/.VolumeIcon.icns

the latest being installed, as far as i remember well, using "Icon Machine" being able to attach an icon from the menu :

File > Apply Icon to...

i've tried, when writing this reply an experiment :

i take a icns Icon file names "folder_cobalt.icns" put it in a given folder (with a generix icon then) and do :

$ mv folder_cobalt.icns .VolumeIcon.icns

verify by :

~/Pictures/Folders/folder_cobalt/folder_cobalt%> ls -al

total 264

drwxr-xr-x 3 yvon yvon 102 Nov 6 15:08 .

drwxr-xr-x 4 yvon yvon 136 Nov 6 15:06 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 yvon yvon 65146 Nov 6 15:05 .VolumeIcon.icns

even forcing the finder to relaunch i don't see this icon and also even after having made a copy of this folder with it's icon...

may be this need a computer restart,

i'll let new know if that work, because it could be done via AppleScript using a do shell script.

best,

Yvon

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>setting file/folder icon by AS ? (From: Yvon Thoraval <email@hidden>)

>Re: setting file/folder icon by AS ? (From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>)