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I just found this out a few days ago. I’m sure all of you life time mac users have already heard of this but I thought I’d share it with you! On most macs the folder icon is simply a blue folder. What’s cool is that you can customize those folders icon to whatever you want. Some people remove an icon all together and keep private folders not viewable unless the user knows where it is on the desktop.

You simply get an image, and turn it into an “.icns” format so that the image is now an icon. You can do this with this program converter or you can just simply rename the image “.icns” and preview will ask you to confirm the switch. After you have done that, right click your new icon and select “Get info”. At the top left of the window you will see the your new image. Click on the image so that a blue glow appears around it. Then got to file copy or hit Command – C on your keyboard. You can now close that window. Now open the folder you want to change the same way by right clicking and selecting “Get info”. Like before you will see an image in the top left, this time being the folder icon. Select the folder icon so that a blue glow appears around it like before and this time go to file paste or Command – V on your keyboard. You should now see your new icon in the top left of the window. Now close that window. Your folder (wherever it is) should now have that image instead of the folder icon. That’s it! If you aren’t good at creating an icon or this is too complicated for you, you can go here which will take you to apple.com where you can download hundreds of custom folders! There are many tutorials on YouTube for this as well if this post was too hard to follow!