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Re: Problem getting app icon to display in Finder



On 5/8/06 3:33 PM, Peter S Lau didst favor us with:

> On May 8, 2006, at 9:26 AM, Laurence Harris wrote:
> 
>> On 5/8/06 7:41 AM, Peter S Lau didst favor us with:
>> 
>>> Here what I usually do in Finder:  Do a Get Info... Click on the
>>> icon, do a
>>> cmd-c, cmd-v, and cmd-x.
>>> 
>>> What the sequence does is to copy the generic icon to the
>>> clipboard... Then
>>> paste it as a custom icon to the application bundle, then remove
>>> it.  This
>>> should force the Finder to peek inside the bundle, etc.
>> 
>> Ouch. This is a hack. I wouldn't do that as it creates a custom
>> icon file in
>> the package that isn't deleted when you remove the custom icon.
> 
> I tried this in 10.4.6 and I can see the bundle size went up and down
> in the Get Info window...
> 
> looks good to me.

I'm sure it was very entertaining for you. Nevertheless, it leaves behind an
empty, invisible Icon\r file containing 268 bytes and using 4K of disk space
(even in 10.4). There are better ways to address this.

Larry

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