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My applications folder is on the dock and when I click on it the applications come up but the icon size is too big, is there anyway to make these icons a lot smaller? any help is much appreciated.
MacOS – change the size of the applications folder icons from the dock
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This looks like it might be a problem with a system font. Try this...
- Open Font Book (in
/Applications) - Select the "All Fonts" collection in the left-hand pane
- Click any font in the right-hand pane to focus that pane
- Select all the fonts using Edit -> Select All or Cmd+A
- In the File menu, click "Validate Fonts"
If any fonts are corrupt, this method should alert you to the problem.
This is usual behavior for Applications that you newly installed from the internet (not with the Mac App Store).
You should also be asked whether you are sure to open it because it has been downloaded from the internet.
After a restart, or perhaps just logging out and in again, the usual icon should appear.
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Best Answer
To change the size on the Applications Dock menu in Grid view click the Applications Dock Tile and then press command- to make the menu and icons smaller or command+ to make the menu and icons larger.
I have tested this under OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5, OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and macOS Sierra 10.12.
The image below is from OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 taken on a Thunderbolt Display at 2560 x 1440 and of three separate screen shots that were cropped from the lower right corner to the size necessary to show the size of each grid menu and its size changed and layered to reduce the size of posting 3 individual images. Nothing has been retouched, just cropped and layered to contrast between a large menu in the back, the default size menu on this Display in the middle and a smaller sized menu up front. Calculator.app was used to show scale and as you can plainly see the size of the icons changes with the size of the grid menu.