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I don't have the problem in the Dock, but I am getting some problems of a similar nature elsewhere: generic (or blank) icons in some places.
I've been searching to see how I can force Ventura to re-scan applications to get the appropriate document icons but I haven't been successful. All of the free utility programs I know of are not ready yet with a Ventura version and I believe they typically offer a graphical user interface to some cleanup commands.
Can anyone offer advice on how to force Ventura to re-scan icons?
I've been searching to see how I can force Ventura to re-scan applications to get the appropriate document icons but I haven't been successful. All of the free utility programs I know of are not ready yet with a Ventura version and I believe they typically offer a graphical user interface to some cleanup commands.
Can anyone offer advice on how to force Ventura to re-scan icons?
I tried this How to Clear Icon Cache on Mac (osxdaily.com), but with no succes.
BTW I also have blank icons in "last used" menu.
BTW I also have blank icons in "last used" menu.
Thanks, I did try that too a few days ago and it wasn't entirely successful. It was successful in one place where I noticed the issue: PDFs attached to mail in my Outlook app turned to generic icons but this was resolved after running the procedures above. But, I still have generic icons in a few other places.
Update: now that I look carefully in my Doc, my download folders when displaying in the Dock as List view shows generic icon for .doc files but not others. When displayed in Grid or Fan view, the icons are not generic. When I open the same folder in the Finder, icons look fine too. Hmmm.!?
This sounds similar to the issue I noted in an earlier thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/icons-for-aliases-in-dock-folder-incorrect.2367332/
I have not found a solution for PDF icons in the dock - they display as blank icons when in a dock folder, but they display properly in the same folder when opened in finder. I am chalking it up to some sort of quirk in Ventura.
I have not found a solution for PDF icons in the dock - they display as blank icons when in a dock folder, but they display properly in the same folder when opened in finder. I am chalking it up to some sort of quirk in Ventura.
Thanks for pointing to an existing thread about this issue. I'll peruse it.
In the meantime, I'm eagerly awaiting Titanium Software to update their free Onyx to see if there are any built-in commands I could use to delete cache, re-index, and the like. I am pretty sure these all exist in Ventura and could be executed in the command-line interface, but I'm not savvy enough to know exactly what to type.... ugh....
I think it's a bug in macOS Ventura. Have same with archiver software. No workaround yet.
Good to hear others confirm it too.
I’ve tried to use various tools like Onyx to clean up/delete various caches and there’s no solution that I’ve found.
So everyone reading this knows the issue is caused by the use of this API:
Any file that has a custom icon set but has a default one from Apple will render blank when using that method. This should be reported to Apple and cross fingers they fix this before the next “major” macOS.
More info here:
github.com
Objective-C:
[NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace iconForFile:(NSString *)];Any file that has a custom icon set but has a default one from Apple will render blank when using that method. This should be reported to Apple and cross fingers they fix this before the next “major” macOS.
More info here:
Ventura issue rendering custom document icons (Fixed in macOS Ventura 13.4) · Issue #1177 · aonez/Keka
👉 Fixed in macOS Ventura 13.4 Keka version: [ 1.2.57 (5068)] macOS version: [macOS 13.0 (22A380)] The icon is displayed normally in the download folder, but the icon is displayed abnormally in the ...
github.com
So everyone reading this knows the issue is caused by the use of this API:
Objective-C:[NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace iconForFile:(NSString *)];
Any file that has a custom icon set but has a default one from Apple will render blank when using that method. This should be reported to Apple and cross fingers they fix this before the next “major” macOS.
More info here:
Ventura issue rendering custom document icons (Fixed in macOS Ventura 13.4) · Issue #1177 · aonez/Keka
👉 Fixed in macOS Ventura 13.4 Keka version: [ 1.2.57 (5068)] macOS version: [macOS 13.0 (22A380)] The icon is displayed normally in the download folder, but the icon is displayed abnormally in the ...
I don’t fully understand but appreciate knowing that this is now a big recognized by the community and not something unique to my computer.
I hope Apple fixes this in their next dot release. Someone in the cited form suggests Apple might not fix it until macOS 14. I hope not. Why would Apple delay a fix?
I did suggested that because on macOS 10.15 Catalina they introduced a similar (while not technically) issue with the icons and did not fixed it until macOS 11.0 Big Sur.
On that time it only affected the Finder, this time the Finder is not affected but any application that retrieves the icon from a file using the proper API. The Dock, Chrome, almost any app uses that one API.
Icon issue on macOS 10.15 Catalina · Issue #453 · aonez/Keka
👉 This seems will never be fixed in Catalina. Big Sur has this fixed anyway. Original report: I recently bought Keka from app store when I was using Mojave, I then made a clean install with Catalin...
github.com
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It’s been a couple of months since this thread was active. Anyone found a fix or an update? This is driving me crazy.