Changing Snow Leopard Default App Icon
I recently discovered that some important app’s icon in Snow Leopard such as Safari, QuickTime X, System Preferences, Time Machine, TextEdit, Stickies, etc. are cannot replaced using CandyBar or ‘Get Info + Paste’ method.
Mine is Mac OS X 10.6.1 with latest CandyBar 3.2.1 installed.
It just crashed when I click Apply & Logout button.
So I try the trick below and it works like a charm.
- Open the Get Info pane on selected app.
- Scroll down and open the padlock, then enter your password.
- On the Permission box, place your name using + button.
- Then, grant yourself a Read & Write privilege access.
Click the gear icon at the bottom and choose ‘Make .. as the owner’. - Now you can do the Paste over the icon placement on top of Get Info pane.
- Don’t forget to revert the Permission & Privilege access starting from clicking ‘Revert’ from the gear icon and so on. Lock it and you’re done!
