1) Copy App Icons Even Easier/Faster
@ismh86 and others - you can get an app icon even easier than the iDownloadBlog article suggests. That might have been the way to do it in 2014, but it’s definitely easier now
- select the app in Finder
- press ⌘C
- go to Preview.app
- File > New From Clipboard.
Voilà!
You don’t need to use “Get Info” at all.
2) Get Your Proxy Icons Back
In Monterey, you can get your proxy icons back easily!
Go to System Preferences » Accessibility » Display and check the box next to “Show window title icons” as shown below:
3) Revive “Save As!” Banish “Duplicate!”
I wrote about this one a long time ago but I re-post it every few years because it seems so easily forgotten or missed or “I didn’t know that!”
“Save As” Isn’t Gone, It’s Just Hidden
Longtime Mac users know that “Save As” was ⇧⌘S but Apple changed that in Lion to “Duplicate” which no one asked for, and I’ve never met anyone who likes it.
However, if you click on the “File” menu and hold down the Option key, “Save As…” will reappear! Or you can just press ⌥⌘S to use “Save As…”!
But what we really want is to have “Save As…” restored to its rightful place.
Even better, we’d like to banish “Duplicate” to never be seen again.
We can do this. We have the technology.
Get Save As… Back
First, go to System Preferences » Keyboard » App Shortcuts.
Then. click the + button as shown here:
Set "Application to “All Applications”
Enter “Save As…” as the “Menu Title”
Use ⇧⌘S as the Keyboard Shortcut, like so:
Click “Add”
Banish “Duplicate”
If you just do the above step, “Duplicate” will appear in the “File” menu under “Save As…”
If that’s what you want, stop reading.
However, if you never use “Duplicate” and want to get rid of it, repeat the same process as above, but this time set the “Menu Title” to “Duplicate” and the Keyboard Shortcut to ⌥⌘S like this:
Now when you go to the “File” menu, you will see “Save As” but you won’t see “Duplicate” unless you hold down Option.
