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Change the icon of an Alias in macOS Sierra?

I can't seem to get the icon of any aliases to change in macOS Sierra. I open a PNG image in Preview, select all and copy. I then do a 'Get Info' on an alias, select the icon in the top left corner, and then paste the copied image. The icon for the alias doesn't change, but the file size of the alias does change.

I have also tried creating a '.icns' package. I can drag and drop this onto a folder's 'Get Info' icon and it changed immediately. This does not work for aliases, though.

Does anyone have any insight into this? Am I doing something wrong? Is there something special that needs to be done for aliases or is it just not possible to change their icon?

I tried doing this and ended up with the same result. Icon did not change, but the 'size' of the alias did change. This leads me to believe that the image/icon was put into the alias, but the image just didn't change.

Hello,

i found a by-pass. 1/ Change the destination of the Alias. (in FR : "Sélectionner un nouvel original") 2/ Change the icon (it should work now) 3/ You can restore the right destination.

Hope it helps

hello again ...

if by pass don't work, here's another one :

01/ Customise the icon of the original folder you want to "alias" (you should be allowed to do this)

02/ Create an alias : this alias should look the same (same custom icon)

if you want the original folder to retrieve its default icon, you can do that too .

Hello,

I have had this problem three years ago. The bug ended up disappearing with the new versions and it comes back, it's quite desperate.

Since Sierra 10.12.5, it's even worse. I had solved the problem by using a formatted disk "NTFS" (yes it worked better with a windows format), but now even in "NTFS" it no longer works and worse, I can no longer access my disk Second to open a directory), this weekend I even had the right to 5 Mac reboots with Panic report, I had to remove Bitdefendeur to avoid these problems, and as a bonus I had the right to the Loss of 50% of the good operation of my alias, I forced to repair the USB key three times, I even tried on an external disk, but I was using it prematurely ...

I have more than 2500 aliases, so re-creating them all with each update is not simple.

Sorry for my English (google).

Jean-Luc

Hello again,

This afternoon I had the pleasant surprise of having found my "icns" on my alias. They reappeared after ejecting the disc, then disconnecting and reconnecting the disc. My working disk is a Seagate formatted in "Mac OS Extended".

So I just had a little experience.

1) If I start the Mac with the connected disk, you need an eject to have my icons.

2) If I start the Mac with the disk disconnected, it takes two ejections to get the icns.

It will have to provide for an extension of guarantee for the USB ports.

I like it when things turn out well

Jean-Luc

Just landed here. Same problem on 10.12.6 

Why should we bother,  we don't even have a decent Password manager on macOS.

Apple is too busy with Hollywood nowadays .. attention to detail went with Steve :(

最后更新：2017-08-31 17:30:12

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