Granted, this is a rather minor issue, but annoying nevertheless. I have always been able to copy icons out of Pixadex or wherever, paste them to a folder in the Finder, then copy and paste the icon onto a DT folder via the inspector pane. Now I find that this is much more difficult. I’ve tried (1) copying and pasting directly from Pixadex (or other source, such as the Finder) to the DT folder (via inspector), (2) my old system of copying and pasting to a Finder folder then to a DT folder/the inspector), (3) dragging from Pixadex or elsewhere directly to the icon of the DT folder in the inspector, (4) dragging the icon to DT’s groups/binder pane to create something the inspector would accept (this creates a folder with nothing in it, no picture), (5) dragging the icon into a rich text file in DT, drag the graphic to the inspector pane for the file itself, THEN copy and paste it to the DT folder I was after all alone, and (6) export the Pixadex icon as a TIFF file, then use two monitors to see both the inspector in DT and the Finder window, then drag the Tiff file to the inspector. This only works with two monitors, however, since the Dt inspector window disappears when DT is not active.
I am assuming that the Pixadex or other icon is in a format DT can’t recognize. So the old system of pasting it to a Finder folder, which does accept it, then copying and pasting to a DT folder should work as it always has, no?
But it didn’t. Only a few times did #2 option work, but more often than not, nothing worked except options 5 and 6. When I would attempt to paste or drag the graphic I would get no result at all. I had to drag the icon into an rtf file then drag it to the inspector pane, etc. to get my folder icons to change or export it as a tiff file then drag it.
What I would like to do is something much easier. Anything easier! So please, why is this behavior now different and what am I doing wrong? I assume/hope it is something simple that I am merely overlooking?
Thanks,
Alexandria
