I am trying to find where the icon file is located for certificates on OS X. This is a picture of what I'm looking for:
Do you know where OS X stores the icon for this file?
MacOS – How to find the location of an icon file on OS X
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Open ~/Library/Safari/.
It is there, called Safari Desktop Picture.jpg (or whatever the extension is).
If you're on Lion, to get to Library folder you may open Finder, select Go from the top menu and hold ⌥ Option. The normally hidden Library menu will reveal itself in the folder list. Open it, and proceed to Safari subfolder.
If you're not on Lion or just prefer the quick way, open Finder, press ⇧ Shift + ⌘ Cmd + G to open directory prompt and paste ~/Library/Safari/:
The Time Machine menu bar item is located at:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/TimeMachine.menu/
The menu bar item uses four PDFs for the four different icon states, in Contents/Resources/:
Above icons from OS X 10.10 Yosemite DP2
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I couldn't find that exact icon because I wasn't able to produce such a certificate file. If you can tell me where to find such a file, I might have better luck.
I was, however able to find a similar image. It's located at
/System/Library/Frameworks/SecurityInterface.framework/Versions/A/Resources/CertLargeStd.png(at least for Mac OS 10.8.2) and it looks like this:(
CertLargeStd@2x.pngis the one used on Retina screens.)This is the image shown when you view a certificate in Keychain Access or Safari:
To find this image, I opened up the Safari panel above. I examined Safari's open files via Activity Monitor, and the image in question was there.