Comments on: Change Apple Mail’s Dock icon

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:51:05 +0000

Didn’t work for me on Snow Leopard, until I changed the permissions (as stated above, thanks Chocky!).

To do this:
– Open the Get Info panel for the app you want to change the icon of
– At the bottom expand the ‘Sharing & Permissions’ section
– Click the padlock and enter your password
– Change ‘everyone’ to ‘Read & Write’

You should now be able to copy your icon over.
Don’t forget to put the permissions back!

By: Chocky

Chocky — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:43:11 +0000

Applications which are part of the standard OS install will have permissions of:
Owner : System – R/W/X
Group : Wheel – R/-/X
Everyone : R/-/X

so you won’t be able to paste the icon unless you change the permissions first.

Don’t forget to change the permissions back when you’re done.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:21:03 +0000

In Snow Leopard, doesn’t let me paste. I can paste in the duplicate copy, just not the original mail.app. Clipboard shows my buzzard is there. App is not locked, have the right permissions, etc.

Any ideas?

By: Des Dougan

Des Dougan — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:54:15 +0000

Seems not to work in Snow Leopard (upgrading reset to the default).

By: Ken Burns Effect

Ken Burns Effect — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:59:08 +0000

@Adrian: Ctrl-Click (right-click) any file or folder to duplicate!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:00:43 +0000

It doesn’t give me an option to duplicate Mail.app. That’s the step I’m stuck on. Thanks for any help.

By: Chocky

Chocky — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:47:41 +0000

Tim,

Yes, Mail was not running when I did this. Since then I’ve tried it on two machines, both runing 10.4.8 (Mail 2.1 (752/752.2)) and both worked as they should. I just got back to the original machine and now that it’s been restarted the new icon stays put.

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:47:11 +0000

Chocky — Are you quitting Mail first before you try this?

By: chocky

chocky — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:23:13 +0000

Only seems to work until I quit Mail upon which the Mail’s Icon in the Dock reverts to the standard version. Tried various accounts with the same results. The icon Mail displays in the Finder is the one I pasted in but the Dock version reverts. Anyone else noticed this?

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