When I plug in my USB key, I see this icon on my desktop:
I want to customize this, so that the image on the desktop and in Finder will look like the physical USB key.
I was able to find an online image converter to create an icon from my image, and I was able to successfully use the "get info, copy icon, paste icon". As you can see, the far right info window is for the icon itself, and I've copy-pasted that image the middle info window, which is a folder:
Applying that same copy-paste technique to the drive itself (the far-left info window), I get completely different results:
What am I doing wrong here? After an hour spent trying to troubleshoot this (messing with SetFile, manually copying the .VolumeIcon.icns file, etc), I also need to ask: is what I'm attempting even possible?
(I looked at a program called CandyBar, but it would have changed the image for ALL drives, not individual drives; it doesn't help me)
Here's what happens when I tried dragging an .icns file onto the drive icon: