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7 Replies Last post: Mar 27, 2005 7:28 PM by Nobody  
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Mar 26, 2005 3:27 PM

Icon stuck on hard drive

Is there a new way to change icons? For years I have been opening Info on the icon and the mac desktop hard drive, selecting the icon, copy, select the mac hard drive icon, paste. If I ever wanted the original mac hard drive icon back, I just opened Info, selected it, and chose Cut, now cut option is not available and I am unable to paste anything new, I am logged in as Admin, can anyone help? or am I just forgetting something?
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1. Mar 26, 2005 5:30 PM in response to: Nobody
Re: Icon stuck on hard drive
Try copying, pasting, and then cutting.
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2. Mar 26, 2005 6:42 PM in response to: d00d
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I did, thats what I do not understand, I have tried every possable combo and even a restart (ala Windows) and still no Cut command available.
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3. Mar 26, 2005 7:19 PM in response to: d00d
Re: Icon stuck on hard drive
Found it, my
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where set to Read Only, is that the right?
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4. Mar 26, 2005 7:28 PM in response to: Nobody
Re: Icon stuck on hard drive
If you click/select the HD icon you should get the Cut feature as an option! ...and then the original HD icon should appear. I'm not sure what the snag is if you do have it selected.

{Edit} ...sweet..thanks for posting the fix

-doug
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5. Mar 26, 2005 7:36 PM in response to: Nobody
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where set to Read Only, is that the right?

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You re-set them correctly. Even though mine are dimmed and locked for the time being. And Others is set for 'Read Only' in the Get Info HD dialog box.

-doug
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6. Mar 26, 2005 8:27 PM in response to: dougster
Re: Icon stuck on hard drive
yeh, but now it is really messed up, iTunes will not open and I a cannot save anything on the couple of programs I checked. I tried to repair permissions, but when it repairs, it says it is using special permissions 33261, same with verify permissions.

I hope I can fix this by tommorow, I have guests coming over and one of them is considering a Mac and wanted to check out mine. But I cannot open and use my programs

UPDATE:
DOH! you must select "Apply to Enclosed Items" in order for changes to take effect, its almost always something simple with a Mac. If this where my Windows machine, I would be taking out the disks to re-format the drive about now:)
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7. Mar 27, 2005 7:28 PM in response to: Nobody
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