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WTF?! Icons keep disappearing
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2002
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My icons keep disappearing in two different installs of Tiger on two differnet machines. Pages, iLife 05, FCE-HD. Any idea why?
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What do you mean by your icons are disappearing? Do you mean that you can't find your apps? Or that they're getting generic icons? Or what?
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They're getting generic Application icons.
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Originally Posted by mrgaskell
They're getting generic Application icons.
My Finder won't draw thumbnails for my photos & documents, be it as an icon or in the preview pane of column view. Not sure if they were there and disappeared, or if they've been missing since the install.
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-Cory Bauer
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If you've got generic icons, I'd try deleting the LaunchServices caches. Go to /Library/Caches, find any files whose names start with com.apple.LaunchServices and delete them, and reboot. See if this fixes your problem.
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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After running Tiger for a few days, my icons all started getting screwed up. I suspect the icon cache was damaged. I logged out and back in (which fixed the problem) and filed a bug report with Apple.
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
If you've got generic icons, I'd try deleting the LaunchServices caches. Go to /Library/Caches, find any files whose names start with com.apple.LaunchServices and delete them, and reboot. See if this fixes your problem.
Thanks for the tip. That cleared up my generic icon issues.
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Thanks, Captain! 
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My custom icons on folders and files also disappear on a regular basis. Mainly the ones that I place in the Dock. This is since upgrading to Tiger.
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I've trashed those caches, restarted and logged out, and my Finder still won't draw previews or thumbnails for images. I can grab an image out of Safari and drag it to the desktop right now and all I get is a generic white document icon. It sucks tremendously.
UPDATE: I trashed the entire contents of the Library/caches folder and restarted. Not only has the Finder's willingness to draw icons and previews returned, but it fixed my other problem where I wasn't able to drag documents onto icons in the dock. Woohoo!
(Last edited by Cory Bauer; May 13, 2005 at 12:15 AM.
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-Cory Bauer
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