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DESCRIPTION
My Book Icons is a set of Western Digital My Book icons. The set includes icons for the Western Digital My Book; Premium, Pro, Essential, Premium II, Pro II, World, World II drives and now; new Essential, Home, Office, Studio & Studio II. Now including much requested copy & paste Mac icons.
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WHAT'S NEW
  • Added icons for the Studio II drive.
  • Added all icons for Windows.
  • Added all icons for Linux.
  • Added Mac 'Get Info' copy & paste icons.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.0 or later.

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Developer:digital:pardoe
Downloads:14,344
  - Version d/l:5,569
Multimedia & Design:Icons
License:Free
Date:17 Aug 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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Aug 17 2008

MACGEEK914  Those are VERY pretty. Kudos for spending time to make our WD drives look better on Mac OS X!  
(Version 0.8)

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Mar 17 2008

XPANDER  Great icons, and great timing! Just picked up a 1TB version yesterday. kudos.  
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Mar 17 2008

DIGITAL.PARDOE  For people struggling to properly apply the icons under Leopard I have written up a small tutorial here:

http://digitalpardoe.co.uk/blog/show/100

You will need the developer tools installed in order to apply the icons correctly (or at least a copy of the UNIX 'SetFile' command from someone with the developer tools).  
(Version 0.6)

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Jul 27 2008

KAARLOWS  Excelent icons and thanks for the tutorial and link to the software for changing the icons.  
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Feb 15 2008

BEC ASMAR  To change an item's icon to another one:

1. Select the volume, application, folder, or file whose icon you want to stamp onto another, just click the icon to select it.

2. From the File menu, choose Get Info or press Command-I to open the Info window.

3. Click the icon in the upper-left corner of the Info window to select it.

4. From the Edit menu, choose Copy or press Command-C.

5. Select the volume, application, folder, or file whose icon you want to replace.

6. From the File menu, choose Get Info or press Command-I.

7. Click the icon in the upper-left corner.

8. From the Edit menu, choose Paste or press Command-V to replace the icon.   
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Jan 9 2008

RICH K.  Hi sorry for being stupid but how do i install these? I have a My book premium but i cant get the things to paste on to the the default orange icon in the get info window?  
(Version 0.6)

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Mar 17 2008

VINOD  Instructions are here:-

http://digitalpardoe.co.uk/blog/show/100  
(Version 0.7)

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Dec 23 2007

DOUG S.  I love these icons, I still use them on my My Book. I've bought a WD Passport, I don't suppose you'll add those?  
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Dec 24 2007

GUNTIS  May I suggest you to look at these WD Passport icons:

http://newformula.org/download/icons/storage/

or

http://mugenb16.deviantart.com/art/Western-Digital-Passport-Icon-66859434  
(Version 0.5)

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Dec 24 2007

DOUG S.  Oooo, thanks!  
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Nov 4 2007

GUNTIS  "Designed for the Mac.? They are not even bootable on a Mac (at least using Firewire)."

Oh, you mean hard drive? Studio Edition (not Pro!) is formatted for the Mac. Even on the red box it's written so. It has HFS+ formatted drive, and mounts on my Desktop with Firewire 800 cable. No problems.  
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Nov 6 2007

DGEO  It mounts in desktop and it is HFS preformatted but it is not bootable, at least not in PPC Macs. Beware, this drive has other issues as well regarding waking from sleep etc.  
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Dec 23 2007

WEREWEASEL  What partition map is the drive formatted with? WD probably formatted it with the GUID partition map for Intel Mac compatibility. If so, that would explain why you have trouble booting it on a PPC Mac. PPC Mac users should reformat the drive to use the older Apple partition map.

Hopefully that's all it is, since I'm thinking of getting one of these drives.  
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Dec 23 2007

DOUG S.  GUID partition map is required to boot any volume on an Intel Mac. It is not, however, required for a PPC Mac.  
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Dec 24 2007

ANDYF  I wouldn't phrase it the way you just did scottyarch. It suggests that GUID is not required for PPC but bootable. It is not, you cannot boot PPC from external GUID.   
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Dec 24 2007

DOUG S.  See, that little detail I was fuzzy on. I couldn't remember if it could or not, I only knew that you had to have it to boot from an Intel.  
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Oct 15 2007

GUNTIS  What about the WD My Book Studio Edition HDD icons? Studio Edition is specially designed and even formatted for the Mac! I've got a pair of them, now I need new icons... :-)  
(Version 0.4)

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Nov 4 2007

DGEO  Designed for the Mac.? They are not even bootable on a Mac (at least using Firewire).  
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Nov 4 2007

GUNTIS  How can icon be bootable?! You can assign icon to the drive, so that when you mount drive it appears with this custom icon on your desktop. That's all.  
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Jul 22 2007
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DOUBLEBACK  They're nice, neat and simple.  
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Jul 16 2007
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DOUG S.  Now that there's actually an icon for my drive I can give it a proper review.

Features: Great! It has all the My Book drives. I guess that's what you'd call features in an icon set. It also comes with the icons as well as the icons applied to documents so you can copy and paste them easily.

Ease of Use: Well he's given all the things you'd need to make applying them in whatever way you like as easy as possible.

Value: It's free. 'Nuff said.

Stability: The icons work great with no problems that I can see.

Plus the guy who made them is responsive to requests and that can't always be said of a developer.  
(Version 0.2)

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