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ibook_steve
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Mar 19, 2014, 11:14 AM
 
Something strange has happened to my up-to-date Mavericks installation. Some of the standard folder icons on only some folders have been replaced with some other random icon and I don't know how it happened or how to get the standard folder icons back. They can't be deleted in the get info window. Repairing permissions didn't help. This is only on some folders and new folders I create have the standard icon. Any ideas on what I could try to fix this?

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Mar 19, 2014, 02:20 PM
 
Could be a cache issue. Make an icon change to a new folder, open /Preferences/, sort by modification date, move any likely Finder files to trash. Search for 'finder' in prefs and repeat. Reboot.
     
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Mar 20, 2014, 07:35 AM
 
There were no files with finder in their name in Preferences.

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Mar 20, 2014, 07:45 AM
 
Whoops...I was in the wrong Preferences folder. But deleting and rebooting didn't fix the problem.

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