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for Applications, Library, Utilities, Home etc.) will remain being displayed in the centre of the folder, so that aspect of customising isn’t currently possible (see footnotes). You can change the look of this background folder but the light blue font glyph (eg. Instead, it uses a template folder icon (a PNG image in various pixel sizes and adds various font glyphs on top of it to denote the different types of System folder, or leaves the folder blank in the middle for new/basic folders, like the look of the old GenericFolderIcon.icns file from 10.9 and before. Read on.īig Sur does not use the /S/L/CS/Coretypes.bundle folder icons anymore to display the various System Folder icons. However, just worked out July 31 2020, you ‘can’ globally change the system folder look to a customised one. LiteIcon will only launch on BS if you alter the ist string from 10.16 to 10.15, which isn’t ideal - so maybe just customise some icons via the Get Info ‘paste or drop image’ method (which leaves an invisible support file inside the app folder or at the drive root level). No global change to System folder icons possible. LiteIcon 4.1 can now only change individual app and drive icons on BS.

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I suggested to the LiteIcon developer that they may consider a future update with just the Folders section removed (and not the need to alter any system files to make it launch), but who knows if they’ll think this is worth their while.Ĭlick to expand.**Change Big Sur System Folder Icons***

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I’ve been able to install beta 1-3 on my Mac Pro 2010 and leave the system volume unsealed and with no snapshot booting, but this ‘may’ not entirely be necessary to get LiteIcon 4.1 to run (other than altering the ist file).

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Read up elsewhere on Macrumors (eg Big Sur on Unsupported Macs) to find out how to install the beta and eventual final release on your particular Mac. You’ll still need to have SIP disabled and possibly ‘csrutil authenticated-root’ as well. I did prove that you can still run LiteIcon 4.1 (effective up to Catalina) on Big Sur if you change the string inside ist (inside S/L/CoreServices) from 10.16 to 10.15 but you can only change the Dock, Others, Applications and Volumes icons (and now obviously ‘not‘ the Folder ones). In other words they can no longer be replaced.” “They look similar but they are now dynamically generated from a base template icon and a glyph from SF Symbol font. After carefully looking into this matter, the replied to me today: In the hope that the developers of LiteIcon would fix this problem, I’ve been in touch with them. I’ve been posting in a similar macrumors forum on this matter - detailing that, no matter what I do, the bright blue BS system icons cannot be replaced, even if you replace them inside the CoreTypes.bundle.