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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Sys 7.0, icons, desktop, rebuild
Message-ID: <1991May17.161659.29850@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 17 May 91 16:16:59 GMT
References: <1991May16.192210.30825@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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In article <34568@mimsy.umd.edu>, folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
> Question: how are people using this ability? I took my application's icons and
> pasted them onto the folders containing them. But then it was too easy to
> mistake the real application for its folder (double-clicking to open a folder
> and getting a launch instead). So, I appended the option-f to folder names.

From article <1991May16.192210.30825@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, by 2fmlcalls@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu:
> ...I pooped into
> ResEdit, grabbed the folder icon from the System (or Finder?  I forget) and
> made a number of copies of it.  I then tediously modified these (often with
> appropriate app icons)...

Try this: 
- open the app with ResEdit 2.1.  Double click the icon you want to edit;
you'll get the icon family editor.

- if there's no small icons, drag the large icon to the small icon to create
one

- click the small icon.  Double click the marquee (marching ants).  Copy.

- Now go to a copy of the standard folder icon.  Paste the small icon
onto the standard folder icon, dragging for a nicd effect.

I guess I'm lazy, but sicn+folder is a bit quicker for me...
-- 

=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com