Where are directory icons stored?

David Phillip Oster wrote:

> Give a folder a custom icon and look with a a tool like ResEdit,
> Resorcerer, or the "ls" command in Terminal, and you'll see a file in
> the top level of the directory named:
>
> Icon\r
>
> for most folders with custom icons.

I created a folder on the Desktop and gave it a custom icon. An ls -al
gives...

[xxx:~/Desktop/demo] dale% ls -al
total 128
drwxr-xr-x 3 dale staff 102 Oct 3 09:11 ./
drwx------ 38 dale staff 1292 Oct 3 09:11 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 dale staff 0 Oct 3 09:11 Icon?

(if I vi demo (the directory) it shows me that Icon? is actually Icon^M
which is \r of course). It's 0 bytes, so I presume the icon is actually
stored in the resource fork (I'm presuming ls is not resource aware).

I used ResKnife but I couldn't find the Icon file within it (but the
behaviour was a bit inconsistent, so I'm not sure that that's a sign
either way).

Dale

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Dale Stanbrough wrote:

> David Phillip Oster wrote:
>
> > Give a folder a custom icon and look with a a tool like ResEdit,
> > Resorcerer, or the "ls" command in Terminal, and you'll see a file in
> > the top level of the directory named:
> >
> > Icon\r
> >
> > for most folders with custom icons.
>
> I created a folder on the Desktop and gave it a custom icon. An ls -al
> gives...
>
> [xxx:~/Desktop/demo] dale% ls -al
> total 128
> drwxr-xr-x 3 dale staff 102 Oct 3 09:11 ./
> drwx------ 38 dale staff 1292 Oct 3 09:11 ../
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dale staff 0 Oct 3 09:11 Icon?
>
> (if I vi demo (the directory) it shows me that Icon? is actually Icon^M
> which is \r of course). It's 0 bytes, so I presume the icon is actually
> stored in the resource fork (I'm presuming ls is not resource aware).
>
> I used ResKnife but I couldn't find the Icon file within it (but the
> behaviour was a bit inconsistent, so I'm not sure that that's a sign
> either way).

Open the Icon\r with ResEdit or Resorcerer, and you'll see it has an
'icns' resource, -16455.

Iconographer will open it for you if you select the folder.
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David Phillip Oster wrote:


> Open the Icon\r with ResEdit or Resorcerer, and you'll see it has an
> 'icns' resource, -16455.
>
> Iconographer will open it for you if you select the folder.

That did the trick. Thank you!

dale

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