MacOS – Finder window background colour or image for USB Drive

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I would like to know how to add an image (if that's not possible then a colour) to the Finder window of my USB stick – just the stick not every window.
I have seen it on various .DMG installers (the ones which require the app to be moved into the applications folder often have an image with an arrow and a text telling the user to drag and drop) and now wonder how this is done for the window of a USB drive.

I have an application which runs straight from the stick itself without wanting to move it to the apps directory of the Mac. Every time I click on the USB drive I would like to see a custom image background (much like on those DMGs).

Search results returned old and obsolete ways or partial answers no longer supported by macOS Sierra.

Best Answer

Only works in icon view & as far as I'm aware only on HFS drives.
I quickly tested with a FAT32 drive which appeared to work, but didn't survive eject/insert]

  • Open your folder or entire disk & set view to Icon [ Cmd ⌘ 1 ]
  • Show view options [right click or Cmd ⌘ J ]
  • Select Colour or Picture [for picture you then drag & drop an image to the box on the panel.

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