Inexpensive Mac apps like Folder Color (available in the Mac App store for $3) are another way to customize your Mac’s desktop icons. Close the Get Info box.īecause the Copy and Paste commands work in the Get Info boxes of files and folders, you can also use them to replace standard folder icons with other icons, including third-party novelty icon sets easily found online. With the folder selected, press the Command and V keys (or go to the Edit menu and pick Paste) to change the folder to the new color. The mkdir command is a shortcut for make directory.
I haven't used this, so I'm not sure how well it works. To create a folder on your Mac computer via your Terminal’s command line, you open your Terminal, and navigate to the directory where you want to create a folder, and run this command: mkdir name-of-your-folder. Open Mail and it should create a subfolder under the inbox of the account selected. For the mailbox name, type Inbox/ new mailbox name and then quit mail (meaning type 'Inbox/' preceding the mailbox name). (You can close the Preview window without saving it after you copy the new folder color.)įinally, go to the desktop folder you want to change, press the Command and I keys again to open its Get Info box and click to select the folder at the top of the window. You can try this in Apple Mail: Create a new mailbox and select the account. Click to select the smaller version of that colored folder on the left side of the window and use the Copy command again to copy it. In the Adjust Color panel, move the Saturation, Temperature, Tint and other sliders around until the sample folder in the box is the color you want to use.
