# TotalFinder corrupted after icon change. How do you change the icon then?

**URL:** <https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/totalfinder-corrupted-after-icon-change-how-do-you-change-the-icon-then/1370>\
**Category:** TotalFinder\
**Created:** [February 4, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/totalfinder-corrupted-after-icon-change-how-do-you-change-the-icon-then/1370 "2014-02-04T15:35:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![aekia](https://discuss.binaryage.com/user_avatar/discuss.binaryage.com/aekia/32/2363_2.png) [@aekia](https://discuss.binaryage.com/u/aekia)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/totalfinder-corrupted-after-icon-change-how-do-you-change-the-icon-then/1370/1 "2014-02-04T15:35:52Z")

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So I took the tip from here: [http://pastebin.com/m8fCaxPb](http://pastebin.com/m8fCaxPb) to change the TotalFinder Finder icon. After that, TotalFinder won’t launch anymore and console says it’s because “shell is corrupted”

I will reinstall TotalFinder, since it will fix the launching, but I still want to know how I’ll be able to change the finder icon. I have done it before, but for the life of me can’t remember how I did it. I just did a reinstall of Mavericks and it reset a lot of customised icons back to normal. I managed to change them all, even the Finder icon, but as soon as I launch TotalFinder I get the old Finder icon.

Any help is much appreciated!

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**Author:** ![aekia](https://discuss.binaryage.com/user_avatar/discuss.binaryage.com/aekia/32/2363_2.png) [@aekia](https://discuss.binaryage.com/u/aekia)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/totalfinder-corrupted-after-icon-change-how-do-you-change-the-icon-then/1370/2 "2014-02-04T16:14:11Z")

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Well, it has been resolved. I changed all Finder icons, and .png’s I could find. Restarted the Mac and it now works. I wish there was an easier way to it though 😉

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**Author:** ![darwin](https://discuss.binaryage.com/user_avatar/discuss.binaryage.com/darwin/32/2275_2.png) [@darwin](https://discuss.binaryage.com/u/darwin)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/totalfinder-corrupted-after-icon-change-how-do-you-change-the-icon-then/1370/3 "2014-02-04T23:12:59Z")

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> [@aekia](#):
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> “shell is corrupted”

Well, this check is quite recent. I had to add it because some cracked TotalFinder versions caused continuous Finder crashes under Mavericks.

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**Author:** ![spro](https://discuss.binaryage.com/user_avatar/discuss.binaryage.com/spro/32/786_2.png) [@spro](https://discuss.binaryage.com/u/spro)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/totalfinder-corrupted-after-icon-change-how-do-you-change-the-icon-then/1370/4 "2014-06-09T03:29:11Z")

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So is there any way to change the icon? I ran into the same error with TotalTerminal when trying to update the icon to the new Terminal icon from Yosemite.

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**Author:** ![darwin](https://discuss.binaryage.com/user_avatar/discuss.binaryage.com/darwin/32/2275_2.png) [@darwin](https://discuss.binaryage.com/u/darwin)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/totalfinder-corrupted-after-icon-change-how-do-you-change-the-icon-then/1370/5 "2014-06-09T10:32:36Z")

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I’m open to change signing requirements and allow resources to be modified by users. Unfortunately it would require some research of “codesign requirements” to allow it selectively:

> <https://github.com/binaryage/totalfinder-installer/blob/master/rakefile#L140-L141>

I’m using codesign the simplest way - to sign whole archive and not allowing any modifications.

If you have time, a patch would be welcome.