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You can make a desktop icon by simply copying the image from your graphic editor (PS CS4 for me). Then just get info and paste into the icon area. Voila!
My Hard Drive is now called Andoria, and I've been looking for icons for weeks...and couldn't find any. Now any picture can be an icon.
Amazing...
how come you guys didn't tell me??????
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Man...I just figured out that you can also just copy pictures directly from the web...images.google.com here I come!
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nice trick, too bad it doesn't morph into the shape of the folder it is replacing.
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because it has been like that since OS 9 at least?
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There's an advanced way to do this, using a couple different freeware apps, that allows you to really customize the icon of a hard drive, or any folder or icon you want to alter to your own taste.
I got really obsessed with this a few months ago, and fine tuned all my external hard drive and thumb drive images. Using Google image search, I got images of the exact type and brand of USB flash drive, and of Western Digital Passport drives, and various OWC external drive enclosures. Then I take those images, and process them into icon files. Then associate them with the desktop icon they are assigned to represent. That way I can immediately recognize the hard drive that my desktop HD icon refers to, using the exact miniaturized image of the real thing.
Now I'm hooked, I can't imagine it being any other way. If you have only one or two extra drives, it's not a big deal. But a lot of us are HD collectors, and have as many as ten on a local network. Then it really comes in handy.
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You could do that going all the way back to at least System 7 if my memory serves.
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Before System 7 you had to use ResEdit, as I recall. But it's been many years...
