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jokell82 · 05:25 PM

I went to change my mouse prefs today and noticed this:

[removed oversize image of system preferences with a mangled icon. --tooki]

It wasn't like that the last time I was in the prefs, but that was at least a few days ago. Anyone know what's going on? (This is on a MacBook 2.0 with 2 gigs of ram)

nforcer · Jun 29, 2006, 12:35 PM

Botched install? Mine's fine.

jokell82 · Jun 29, 2006, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by nforcer

Botched install? Mine's fine.

Great, how helpful of you.

Does anyone know if I can just replace the image that System Preferences uses?

nforcer · Jun 29, 2006, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by jokell82

Great, how helpful of you.

Does anyone know if I can just replace the image that System Preferences uses?

It seems after every point upgrade there are a bunch of kids in these forums like:

"OMG, I was defragmenting my new HD while installing the new snappy™ Mac OS X 10.5 I downloaded off of Limewire and when I force restarted my icons were all funny. HELP!"

You suggested it could be 10.4.7 related. I confirmed that is not the case for me unless your install somehow botched.

I would try replacing the icon. I uploaded my icon file here. Go into /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Keyboard.prefPane/Contents/Resources and replace Keyboard.icns with mine, relaunch System Prefs, and see if that makes a difference. If not, does a restart make a difference? Does removing all non-apple prefpanes that are in different locations help? I don't know what could be causing this and it's never happened to me before so I'd try everything reasonable until something works.

saddino · Jun 29, 2006, 05:15 PM

Exact same thing happened to my vanilla (meaning nothing installed but OS X) MacBook Pro, except for me it's the Software Update Icon that's messed up. I installed 10.4.7 yesterday, so I think it's the likely culprit.

tooki · Jun 29, 2006, 05:30 PM

The 10.4.7 install is pure coincidence. This happens occasionally in all versions of Tiger.

The fix is simple: quit System Preferences and delete the ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache file.

tooki

jokell82 · Jun 29, 2006, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by nforcer

It seems after every point upgrade there are a bunch of kids in these forums like:

"OMG, I was defragmenting my new HD while installing the new snappy™ Mac OS X 10.5 I downloaded off of Limewire and when I force restarted my icons were all funny. HELP!"

You suggested it could be 10.4.7 related. I confirmed that is not the case for me unless your install somehow botched.

Obviously it would be a botched install, since not every user in the forums is chiming in with the same issue. I knew that when I posted it.

Originally Posted by nforcer

I would try replacing the icon. I uploaded my icon file here. Go into /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Keyboard.prefPane/Contents/Resources and replace Keyboard.icns with mine, relaunch System Prefs, and see if that makes a difference. If not, does a restart make a difference? Does removing all non-apple prefpanes that are in different locations help? I don't know what could be causing this and it's never happened to me before so I'd try everything reasonable until something works.

I'll try replacing it with the icon you uploaded. A restart did not help, but I should check to see if it affects other users on this machine (I'll have to create one).

Thanks!

jokell82 · Jun 29, 2006, 05:33 PM

That fixed it! Thanks so much!

saddino · Jun 29, 2006, 05:34 PM

Thanks, tooki, worked perfectly!