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diff --git a/source/blog/2015-03-22-back-up-os-x-app-icons.md b/source/blog/2015-03-22-back-up-os-x-app-icons.md index 05d441ac..91edd01a 100644 --- a/source/blog/2015-03-22-back-up-os-x-app-icons.md +++ b/source/blog/2015-03-22-back-up-os-x-app-icons.md @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ title: "Back up OS X app icons" date: 2015-03-22T16:58:50-0700 date_display: March 22, 2015 ---- +... + OS X application icons are valuable assets, and it's interesting to see how they evolve over time. This is especially the case when we upgraded to OS X 10.10 Yosemite, when Apple and many design-aware third party developers overhauled (mainly flattened) their icons. However, we lose all the old icons when we do a major OS upgrade. Technically they still live in Time Machine backups, but those are a pain to pull out. Therefore, I wrote a script just now to back up app icons of all applications living in `/Applications` (including those symlinked to `/Applications`, e.g., apps installed through `brew cask`) and its level-one subdirectories, and `/System/Library/CoreServices` (for `Finder.app` and such). Here's the script: |