Comments on: Changing Stack Icons in the Dock

By: rockmsockm

rockmsockm — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:03:10 +0000

@Carson

Again, the “display as” option you’re talking about did not exist when this article was written. This article is *four* years old, and the option to “display as folder” was not introduced to OSX until 2 years ago. Thanks.

By: Carson

Carson — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:59:47 +0000

You could do the same process and when you right click on the folder on your dock, the whole list while come up, Then go to the “Display As” Tab and under it is says Display as and then there will be a check mark against Stack. What you do is just above stack is Display as folder. Check that and it should work.

By: rockmsockm

rockmsockm — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:18:46 +0000

@Caman

Note that this tip is 4 years old, and the option to “view as folder” did not exist at the time.

The option was added to Snow Leopard 2 years ago. Thanks.

By: Camán

Camán — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:16:02 +0000

Ah, saw now that ye already found that out.
In Lion that is. Mixed the cats up, so I did. lol

By: Camán

Camán — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:14:06 +0000

Or you can right click on the icon in the Dock and tick;

Display as folder.

By: rockmsockm

rockmsockm — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:54:47 +0000

@sg

The reason why this was necessary was because what you were actually putting in the dock were considered “STACKS,” not folders. Technically, it’s not a “flaw” per see, because Apple wanted you to only be able to put STACKS in the dock, not “folders.” The stacks are displaying “correctly,” so this was never a “flaw.”

However, this whole point is moot now, since there’s been an option to display your folders AS FOLDERS for quite some time in Snow Leopard. This “workaround” is actually fairly dated. You can easily see that option by right clicking on any folder you put into your dock.

By: sg

sg — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:05:03 +0000

Why doesn’t the dock just show the icon of the folder that you choose? You can always change the icon to anything using ‘get info’ then replacing the icon. Using an extra folder is quite cumbersome. Nice idea to get around a flaw.

By: JB

JB — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:14:28 +0000

Nice tips thanks. Works!

By: Desktop changes | Katherine & Mike

Desktop changes | Katherine & Mike — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:06:51 +0000

[...] dock (where minimized applications go), and you can’t define an icon for them, without some trickery. And even then, the icons don’t look the way I would like them too. Stacks have some real [...]

By: J.S.

J.S. — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:21:21 +0000

Amazing trick! It is like magic. I tried so hard to make my dock like this before reading your article, but I failed… Anyway, thanks a lot.