Unable to change external drive folder icons

After the Sonoma upgrade, I cannot change an external drive's (ie. Sandisk USB stick) folder icon. I have been using the technique of copying a picture, selecting the folder's info, and then pasting the copied picture onto the upper left hand icon, which then displays the copied picture. This technique now does not work, and I am unable to change the folder icon on the external drive.




MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 14.1

Posted on Nov 15, 2023 08:04 PM

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Nov 18, 2023 03:59 AM in response to sagpilot

I think that Grant Bennet-Alder has hit the nail on the head. when I first tested your issue, I tested it on Mac formatted drives. changing folder icons was not an issue. but after seeing the new replies to this discussion this morning, I tested this issue again using windows formatted thumb drives. I cannot change folder icons on either of the two.

sagpilot wrote:

I’ve never ever had to reformat the Sandisk thumb drives after previous Mac OS upgrades, so I doubt that is the problem.

sorry, but, just because something works one way on one macOS, there is no guarantee it will continue to work the same way on subsequent macOS versions.

Nov 20, 2023 07:46 AM in response to jeffreythefrog

this is what an "'ordinary" Rotating Magnetic drive from MacOS 10.12 looks like.

The Terminal command


diskutil list


produces the output:


/dev/disk4 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *80.0 GB    disk4

   1:                        EFI ⁨EFI⁩                     209.7 MB   disk4s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS ⁨X12-Drv80⁩               79.1 GB    disk4s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot ⁨Recovery HD⁩             650.0 MB   disk4s3



3: main Volume is Apple_HFS Hierarchical File System or HFS+


straight from the Box, I would expect to see NTFS for the main Volume.

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