Change all file icons with same type [Yosemite]

Mohammed picture Mohammed · Feb 15, 2015 · Viewed 27.4k times · Source

I have many excel files in my computer, and the icon of all of them are plain paper, like this: enter image description here

I want all icons to be .numbers icon. Do anyone know how to do that ?

Answer

Dhruv Ramani picture Dhruv Ramani · Feb 15, 2015

Here's what you could do :

  • Open a Finder window and navigate to /Applications/
  • Find the app whose file icon you want to change
  • Right click it and select "Show Package Contents"
  • Navigate to Contents/Resources/ and find the appropriate icon file. Replace it with your new icon file.
  • Restart your computer to update the icon cache.

Or you can change the default app for a file type and set all files of that type to be associated with the default app if that's what your question says:

  • Open a Finder window and locate the file type you want to change.
  • Push Command+i or go to File > Get Info
  • Under "Open With" select the app you like. You have just changed the default app for that individual file.
  • To change the default for all files of that type, push the "Change All" button and then "Continue"

This will make all your excel files to open with numbers while the previous one will just change the icon