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"Get Info" panel on folder

by talkinglens Mar 4, 2011 5:46AM PST

Why or under what circumstances is the lower "Preview:" pane image different than the template icon at the top of the window of the Get Info panel?
How do you make/get them to be the same to be able to use it to copy and paste the image to another folder info panel to change its appearance on the desktop or on a drive?

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(NT) For example?

by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Mar 4, 2011 8:05AM PST

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Folder Icon Variations in Get Info

by centurion48 Mar 4, 2011 8:16AM PST

I think it is the size of the icon displayed. For example, if you have Graphic Converter on your system it shows a different folder graphic when Finder View is set to Icons than when set to List and different aggain when set to Columns. Do a Get Info on the Graphic Coverter folder and you will see two different icons.
Once upon a time - before Mac OS X - there was a wonderful application named Resedit that enabled users to look at resources in any type of file. It was possible to view all the different icon sizes that the file creator had included. Most times they are generic icons but sometimes, like Graphic Converter, they use different sizes of icons because they display better.

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