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ARCHIVED - Free Alternate Dropbox Status Icons for Mac

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UPD 3 All right, it's been a while and Dropbox now has a much nicer iconset. Thank you all for your support! Let's consider this set archived, though it will work, if you still run Mountain Lion.

UPD 2 this whole trick does not work properly in Yosemite.

UPD now the icons scale down properly, a larger set and a simplified set are added.

If you have any problems, please shoot me a screenshot at alice@storry.is. Thanx a lot!


I've been using Dropbox on OS X for almost 4 years now. It was all good. Though, I think at some point I couldn't look at a Dropbox folder anymore, just like now every Dropbox update throws me mentally back to Win XP — default overlaying icons are still horrible. 

I am supposed to look at them every day. How they can still be like that? https://www.dropbox.com/help/406

It's apparent, they stay forgotten, while all the beautiful new illustrations come out of Dropbox design studio in packs. These were made in early 2012, but I still enjoy them more than default ones.

Circle-shaped progress icons are on the rise now, but there's a reason why you probably don't want a solid shape here. It's an overlaying object, when it gets bigger it steals your attention from the content you're looking through, wanting to become more than an indicator.


What's in there

It's 512 pixels OS X icons. They cover such states as synced, syncing in progress, error and sel-sync (selective synchronization). The package includes a folder with .ICNS images, a folder with .PNG images and a .PSD (nothing fabulous there, but just in case).

You can generate a .icns (that's Apple icon format) yourself, if you like or just want to be sure about that file you're about to put in your system. You need a transparent PNG image then, the one to become your icon. And you'll need Apple Developer Tools installed, download the latest at https://developer.apple.com

Here's how to locate Icon Composer on 10.8.5 and earlier:

Macintosh > Developer > Applications > Utilities > Icon Composer

There are also a handful of tools for generating icns files online. Also, feel free to modify these, no attribution needed.


Here's how to do the update.

Copy new icons to Dropbox contents in Applications.

– Go to Macintosh, then Applications and right click on the Dropbox app icon.

– Select 'Show Package Contents'. When you open Contents, choose Resources folder.

– Copy images from ICNS folder and confirm replacement.

– Reboot and launch Dropbox.


Every day matters.

Alice

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