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terryann
PM-R: Functionally, they work, yes. But I don't want to have to defend my desire to have custom icons on my desktop links, but primarily it is for ease of reading and because I am a graphic artist and I like my desktop to look nice. Clearly, tho, something that was working before isn't working now. And that bothers me.
Well Terry, that would bother me too, and maybe that's why I stick with using Mavericks where most things still seem to work, especially when custom modding ones Mac.
I don't usually use Sierra and I can find why your
Get Info doesn't work on any favicon.
The only work-around I can think off would be to create a folder with the custom icon you want and drag your favicon into it. Not ideal I know, but…
I know you wanted your favicons on your Desktop, but if you wouldn't mind having them in your Safari window, you couldn't have custom icons for those sites using Safari extension: FaviconBar
It will allow you to add custom icons into your Safari menubar.
Download and info available here:
https://github.com/RoryCombe/FaviconBar
PS: maybe another Sierra using member could test and see if they can do a custom icon into a favicon. I can't see why they would be so different unless Apple left something out in there Sierra version. It works fine in Mavericks.
EDIT:
I see Tom Nelson has the instructions for similar to what you want to do, but no mention of which OS X Version is involved, but the page is showing 2018:
How to Add URLs to Your Mac’s Dock Using Custom Icons
https://blog.macsales.com/41999-how-to-add-urls-to-your-dock-using-custom-icons
I'm really wondering why it doesn't work for you.
Strange…
- Patrick
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