Follow steps 5-8 from the previous section.The steps are very similar to the previous section. So, in the section, we are going to look into how you can copy the folder icon of one folder to another. Now the icon is also changed in the folder area as you can see below.Ĭopy Folder icon from one folder to another.Its saved already and you can close the Info window. Now you see the copied image in the blue icon area as shown in the screenshot below.Now the image that you downloaded and copied to the clipboard will get applied to the highlighted blue icon. When its selected, click on the Edit menu and then choose Paste.Click over the blue icon and it would be highlighted with the blue border as you can see in the screenshots below.In the Info window that appears, you will see the folder icon at the top showing as blue default icon as seen below.This would open up the Info window with all the information about the folder. Right click on the icon and in the menu that appears, choose Get Info.Now, go to the folder to which you want to change the icon for.Once you do this the image content is copied and placed on the clipboard. In the Edit menu, click Copy as you can see below.Once you are in the Preview app, tap on Edit menu at the top left corner.You need to double click or else if pressing Space key only opens the preview. This is where you could actually make some changes to the image. Double click on the image and it will open up in the Preview app.

Download the picture from the internet and make sure its there in the Downloads Folder as you can see here. First things first, you need an image to replace the blue icon in any folder.I have the latest macOS Monterey as of November 2021, so if you are using the older version of macOS, the screenshots might look a little different but it shouldn’t be hard to follow. Follow whichever way works for you and seems easy.įollow the steps below to change the Folder icon in your macOS operating system. There are actually a couple of ways to do this.

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