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Make Finder desktop icon sizes huge

January 2nd, 2008 - Command Line, Customize, Fun, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks

The Mac OS X desktop is attractive, highly functional, and very customizable, but by default the maximum icon size is 128×128, which is pretty large but if you have a huge monitor or you’re visually impaired you may want larger icons. This is where the command line comes in, where you can force the Mac OS X desktop to display icons as large as 512×512 pixels! Launch the Terminal and type the following commands:

defaults write com.apple.finder DesktopViewOptions -dict IconSize -integer 256
You can set 256 to whatever number you want, as high as 512, just be aware that it can get a little ridiculous, and 512×512 pixel icons will take up the vast majority of your screen.

Next, kill the Finder to relaunch it and see the changes
killall Finder

Reverting the changes is a matter of setting the integer variable to a smaller number.

Source:MacOSXHints.com

Posted by: David Mendez

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Comments: 11

Comment from Ingram
Time: January 5, 2008, 6:32 pm

This is the most useless tip I have ever seen , why would you possibly want icons to be that size? This is a real american tip, where all you eat are big macs. Supersize your Icons like your cheeseburgers!

Furthermore the by killing the Finder you can also lose folder positioning and some finder windows, is that really worth it for extra big icons?

Comment from robot
Time: June 24, 2008, 12:55 pm

Great tip, saves me so much time not having to open up “Adobe Bridge” every time to view the icons at this size. Thanks!

Comment from Drew Smith
Time: July 10, 2008, 9:20 am

Great tip, but is there a way to apply this to folders other than the desktop?

Comment from Piscart
Time: September 24, 2008, 3:32 am

a wonderful thing on my big screen
thanks
so maybe you can solve something:
how to make finder icons, ones on the left side (desktop, documents, downloads, home, macintosh hd etc) ….bigger? they are too small on my 24″!
thanks!

Comment from kamagra
Time: December 7, 2008, 4:26 pm

Very useful website, thanks for this article and very interesting design, thanks.

Comment from cialis professional
Time: January 21, 2009, 12:53 am

Thank you for your site. I have found here much useful information…

Comment from 777driver
Time: June 20, 2009, 7:07 pm

Great little tip, to the first bloke that commented… this great little tip allows you to select anysize not necessarily UP… it’s great for intermediate sizes people may need that the slider in finder won’t allow you to use!

Comment from Jason
Time: July 4, 2009, 12:42 pm

You’re just poor and have a really tiny screen ingram. Go earn some money and then you will be able to actually use this

Comment from Capitaine Haddock
Time: August 16, 2009, 2:29 pm

Fun :-p

Comment from Mike
Time: September 20, 2009, 10:58 am

I couldn’t get this to work on snow leopard … can it be done?

Comment from Kári Emil
Time: January 7, 2010, 11:11 am

Yeah, doesn’t work for me on Snow Leopard either. I like the icons enormous because it forces me to not save stuff to the desktop.

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January 2nd, 2008