Today I tried to move two applications(safari and calculator) from the Finder to the desktop icon area. When I dragged them I accidentally stopped before I reached to workstation/application area and now both safari.app and Calculator.app are written on my desktop and I can move it, open it, or change it. What should I do to get rid of it?
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iMac, Mac OSX (10.5.7)
How do i change pictures in desktop icons on MacBook Pro?
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iPad, iOS 4.3.1
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iMac 2011, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
I know this has been addressed before, but the answers didn't work for me, so I posted a reply in that thread but got no responses, so I'm starting over.
With 10.4, all I had to do to change an icon for a folder or website was copy and paste. These were for icons I wanted in my dock to make them easy to find. Otherwise the default seems to be either that ubiquitous satellite dish or a boring documents icon.
But now, even though I can still do the get info/copy & paste routine, and the new icon shows up in the folder or the desktop, when I drag that icon to the dock it reverts to that crummy satellite dish. When I installed 10.6 on my new iMac, it kept some of my dock icons - the ones I had created - and dumped others. And kept me from creating new ones for the dock.
In Leopard, when I try the good old Get Info Copy + Paste method of changing individual icons (for applications or select folders) it doesn't work. Instead, the icon will be changed to an image icon saying "ICNS". This worked in Tiger, why not Leopard?
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ps: sorry if this question has been asked before, I searched the forums for 10 mins and couldnt find anything similar.
Thanks
Ryan
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iPhoto 8.1.2 (424)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac
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