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OS X Custom Drive Icons 2: Boot Camp and NTFS

September 3, 2008 By Stephen 4 Comments

In my last post, I discussed the simple but confusing steps required to add custom icons to Mac OS X drives. I mentioned that there were some tricks to getting custom icons on some drives, however, including Boot Camp and NTFS disks. This week, I'll show how to customize these as well. There are two core problems with customizing drive icons for certain volumes: OS X can't … [Read more...] about OS X Custom Drive Icons 2: Boot Camp and NTFS

Custom Drive Icons in Mac OS X

August 27, 2008 By Stephen 9 Comments

I previously wrote about the benefits of custom drive icons, which can help you to keep your removable and internal drives straight, and how to create them on Windows Vista. Well, Mac OS X surprised me by using the same generic icon for every drive, so I set about figuring out how to customize them here, too. It turns out it's not only simple to do, but illustrates an odd … [Read more...] about Custom Drive Icons in Mac OS X

Custom Icons Keep Removable Drives Straight

May 27, 2008 By Stephen 3 Comments

Update: I have created another page for custom drive icons in Mac OS X If you're like most people, you have accumulated a large number of removable USB storage devices over the years, from flash-based thumb drives to external hard disks.  I have seven of these things sitting on my desk or in by laptop bag right now!  But Windows XP and Vista uses the same icon for all of … [Read more...] about Custom Icons Keep Removable Drives Straight

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