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Missing Icons in Stacks & Grid views

Hello,

I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.2, this issue happen a few days after I did install MVWare Fussion 3.

Anyone know how to fix this issue??

missing_icons.jpg


I already did the following without luck :confused::

1.clear the user chache.
2. Killall Dock in Terminal.
3. Delete com.apple.dock.plist & com.apple.dock.db.
4. Uninstall MVWare Fussion 3.

Any idea?

Thanks folks!

Roy
 
roy1971 said:
Hello,

I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.2, this issue happen a few days after I did install MVWare Fussion 3.

Anyone know how to fix this issue??

missing_icons.jpg


I already did the following without luck :confused::

1.clear the user chache.
2. Killall Dock in Terminal.
3. Delete com.apple.dock.plist & com.apple.dock.db.
4. Uninstall MVWare Fussion 3.

Any idea?

Thanks folks!

Roy
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Remove the stack and then put it back.
Remove the contents inside the stack.
Click to open it.
Then put all the contents back in.

If you haven't already tried the above it may be worth it?
 
elppa said:
Remove the stack and then put it back.
Remove the contents inside the stack.
Click to open it.
Then put all the contents back in.

If you haven't already tried the above it may be worth it?
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Hi!

Thank you for your fast reply. Yes I already did all those things without luck, I forgot to mentions that also I have repaid the permissions.

I have create another user and happen the same bug.

Roy
 
roy1971 said:
Hi!

Thank you for your fast reply. Yes I already did all those things without luck, I forgot to mentions that also I have repaid the permissions.

I have create another user and happen the same bug.

Roy
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Your issue may have only come up in correlation with the VMWare Installation and not because of it. Are you sure this stack used to preview (quickly) in the past? Am I correct in assuming that you are only missing previews for this specific stack? Have you tried waiting a few minutes to see whether they are built at some point? Are these files correctly previewed in Finder windows ?

You may want to try finding out whether the problem actually lies with the specific files. It's possible that Snow Leopard hangs in the process of trying to create previews for some of these files. This could be due to the fact that SL/Qt hands off the job of creating some video previews to a plugin (like Perian) which in turn doesn't answer correctly, fast enough or at all. I would thus experiment with selectively creating a stack of just a few of these files to see which of these SL is able to build previews for within stacks.

Also try experimenting with uninstalling unnecessary 3rd-party Quicktime plugins as well as updating the rest (Perian etc.).

I remember having such issues myself. SL would take a really long time building previews for some (obscure) video files within stacks while the Finder handled the same task much faster.
 
tkermit said:
Your issue may have only come up in correlation with the VMWare Installation and not because of it. Are you sure this stack used to preview (quickly) in the past? Am I correct in assuming that you are only missing previews for this specific stack? Have you tried waiting a few minutes to see whether they are built at some point? Are these files correctly previewed in Finder windows ?

You may want to try finding out whether the problem actually lies with the specific files. It's possible that Snow Leopard hangs in the process of trying to create previews for some of these files. This could be due to the fact that SL/Qt hands off the job of creating some video previews to a plugin (like Perian) which in turn doesn't answer correctly, fast enough or at all. I would thus experiment with selectively creating a stack of just a few of these files to see which of these SL is able to build previews for within stacks.

Also try experimenting with uninstalling unnecessary 3rd-party Quicktime plugins as well as updating the rest (Perian etc.).

I remember having such issues myself. SL would take a really long time building previews for some (obscure) video files within stacks while the Finder handled the same task much faster.
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FANTASTIC!!!! I just delete a Perian plugin to can play mkv files in Quiktime a fix the problem, thanks a lot tkermit!!! YOU MADE MY DAY!!
 
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imac early 2006 (CoreDuo)


iPhoto 8.1.1
 

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Power Point Explination

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Huntn said:
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If you must

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macjunk(ie) said:
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Came home, reinstalled 10.6, and it booted ok! :) Then I made a Time Machine backup of the drive. Then I installed the combined MacOS update and the 10.6.1 update, no problems so far. But the original time I installed SL it was a couple of days afterwards the problem occurred. So I'll give it about a week, and then I'll make another Time Machine update. Apple did acknowledge there are some chipset issues with SL, but they were adamant that if they were there, I should have problems in Vista too. I'm not sure how that works as they are to completely different OSs. Anyway so far so good! I'm also looking at backing up Vista with some kind of disk image program. Any suggestions?
 
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Huntn said:
Update on my MBP: Swung by the Apple Store today and they reapplied a Snow Leopard update, but that did not help, my MBP kept hanging on startup. They seemed convinced it was a hard drive problem, although my computer boots into Vista just fine. I realize that different partitions one might be ok and the other have a problem. For the sake of possible data recovery, we agreed that I should try to reinstall Snow Leopard from the original install disk and see what happens before the hard drive was replaced.

Came home, reinstalled 10.6, and it booted ok! :) Then I made a Time Machine backup of the drive. Then I installed the combined MacOS update and the 10.6.1 update, no problems so far. But the original time I installed SL it was a couple of days afterwards the problem occurred. So I'll give it about a week, and then I'll make another Time Machine update. Apple did acknowledge there are some chipset issues with SL, but they were adamant that if they were there, I should have problems in Vista too. I'm not sure how that works as they are to completely different OSs. Anyway so far so good! I'm also looking at backing up Vista with some kind of disk image program. Any suggestions?
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i haven't tried it myself but...try this out...
http://www.retrospect.com/products/software/retroforwin/
 
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