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Updating a single Application icon on Mac OS X
posted on December 5th 2015, at 16:24
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lunarg
If you want to replace an Application icon (e.g. when using Wineskin to run Windows-applications), you can do so by replacing the icon file inside an app, located at:
AppName.app/Contents/Resources/AppName.icns
However, sometimes, you will still see the old icon in Finder. This is due to the Finder icon cache, which only gets updated if certain files within the app have a new modified date. The icon file itself isn't one of them. In order to trigger Finder to update its icon cache, it is sufficient to update the modification time of two items by "touching" them from a Terminal:
touch /Applications/AppName.apptouch /Applications/AppName.app/Contents/Info.plist
Normally, this wil
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