Restoring Original Icon via Get Info Pane

Perhaps previously you’ve modified many icons, yet now you’ve become bored with those changes you’ve made; now you want to revert back to your original icon.

The process of reverting back to original icon is quite easy.You could do the followings to restore back to original folder icon.

  1. Select that item
  2. Control-Click on it to display contextual menu
  3. Choose Get Info or alternatively, you can use keystrokes command-i
  4. Click on small thumbnail sat on upper-left corner of info pane
  5. Hit delete key to restore your original icon

Modified Icon

Shown Above. Icon Modified with Get Info Pane

Shown Above. Icon Modified with Get Info Pane

Though it’s just several steps away to restore your original icon, restoring tens (or even hundreds) of modified icons would be really tedious, repetitive and boring.