Blinking Icons - Possible?

[MamaMoose]

My desktop has wuite a few files and folders. Some of these I access every day. For example, all my 2006 Tax Worksheets are in a folder called 2006 Taxes. Is it possible that I can have the folder icon blink or for that matter any icon I choose blink?


Thanks for any ideas and hopefully they won't require a Computer Science PhD in Blinking Icons   ,

MamaMoose

[krissel]

I doubt it is possible with the present Finder unless you do something in the Terminal or find a specific application. I did locate something that is a Windows product which allows for a mouseover effect and other fun stuff but I couldn't find anything for Macs.

http://www.exefind.com/desktop-icon-toy-P28475.html

Why don't you use the labeler and give it a unique color? At least that would help find it.

[Texas Mac Man]

You can change the folder image to another static image of your choice by using the Get Info window.

For example, click once on your HD icon & go to Get Info. In the Get Info window, click once on your HD image (top left) & then select Copy under Edit.

Now click once on a folder icon & go to Get Info. In the Get Info window, click once on the folder image (top left) & then select Paste under Edit. Now the folder icon has been replaced with a HD icon.

This is just an example & you can change it back. I tried to copy an animated gif file & do the same, but it wouldn't work. You can make a small icon image of your choice & replace the folder icon image. I copied the TS mad smiley gif icon & changed it to a mad.jpg & then replaced the folder icon with the mad icon. You could do the same for your Income Tax folder.

[krissel]

I meant to add that putting a really unusual icon on the folder would help as TMM has explained. I have some really weird icons on folders I need to find quickly.

[Xairbusdriver]

If just finding them quickly is the object, you can alwasy put them in the sidebar of Finder windows...

I just don't think the current state of the OS allows animated images as folder/file/program icons. Who knows about Leopard? But I've not heard of anything like this.