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Random folders have wrong icon in Finder
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JadenQuinn
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It is very much still a problem on 26.1. Likely a restart fixes it for a little bit, until it gets corrupted again. Also, sometimes when I mount too many network shares, sometimes 2 or 3, they will all suddenly show "0 items" in whatever folder I open, even a folder that IS STILL open. Doesn't apply to local stuff though, only network shares' folders.
I don't know what they did, but all they're doing is making it worse so far, at least for me. It's so bad for me that EVERY OTHER FOLDER says it's something completely different. Some files have completely incorrect "date modified" metadata, which actually seems to have become real, as in persistent. This is BAD.
I'm also on 26.1. All Apple Silicon machines. This has been happening since around 15.2. Everything comes and goes though, nothing other than the weird date corruption is persistent. Disk Utility dose nothing for me.
Did any of you by chance connect a Windows PC to the drives that have these problems on the Mac side? I'm trying to figure out if that's what messed mine up. They always have "disk compression" turned on, even though they're network shares, and even though I KEEP TURNING IT OFF.
I've also been having extremely annoying network file issues (continued). I have a render farm of 8 Mac minis. When a file is done, it's small enough that it should be able to be pushed across the network onto the storage box that's connected to a 9th Mac mini downstairs, but for some reason every time for weeks other than tonight, I get weird file permission errors, or just an unknown error. I get a different extremely unhelpful error if I try to pull the data using the downstairs Mac mini instead of pushing from the main one in the render farm. The files are completely ordinary video files too, they play perfectly, and the permissions are fine. Sneakernet works completely fine to get them off though, so this seems to just be a network software problem, as well as the corruption of file info and icons. It never happens unless I'm doing stuff with network shares, which is pretty often, but not always.
I have a contact at Apple that says he can directly pass this to someone to look into this, but I don't know if I gave him enough info to do anything. This is really all I have. I also made a Feedback Assistant thingy.
To be clear, this "wrong info and icon" thing isn't just about folders. This is happening to files just as often, it's just a bit harder to spot naturally.
Here's it happening to a Minecraft mod jar: (This was taken a while ago)
I don't know what they did, but all they're doing is making it worse so far, at least for me. It's so bad for me that EVERY OTHER FOLDER says it's something completely different. Some files have completely incorrect "date modified" metadata, which actually seems to have become real, as in persistent. This is BAD.
I'm also on 26.1. All Apple Silicon machines. This has been happening since around 15.2. Everything comes and goes though, nothing other than the weird date corruption is persistent. Disk Utility dose nothing for me.
Did any of you by chance connect a Windows PC to the drives that have these problems on the Mac side? I'm trying to figure out if that's what messed mine up. They always have "disk compression" turned on, even though they're network shares, and even though I KEEP TURNING IT OFF.
I've also been having extremely annoying network file issues (continued). I have a render farm of 8 Mac minis. When a file is done, it's small enough that it should be able to be pushed across the network onto the storage box that's connected to a 9th Mac mini downstairs, but for some reason every time for weeks other than tonight, I get weird file permission errors, or just an unknown error. I get a different extremely unhelpful error if I try to pull the data using the downstairs Mac mini instead of pushing from the main one in the render farm. The files are completely ordinary video files too, they play perfectly, and the permissions are fine. Sneakernet works completely fine to get them off though, so this seems to just be a network software problem, as well as the corruption of file info and icons. It never happens unless I'm doing stuff with network shares, which is pretty often, but not always.
I have a contact at Apple that says he can directly pass this to someone to look into this, but I don't know if I gave him enough info to do anything. This is really all I have. I also made a Feedback Assistant thingy.
To be clear, this "wrong info and icon" thing isn't just about folders. This is happening to files just as often, it's just a bit harder to spot naturally.
Here's it happening to a Minecraft mod jar: (This was taken a while ago)
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I had the same issue with a folder showing up as a QuickTime Movie
If you delete the hidden .DS_Store file from the location the folder is in, not from the affected folder itself and then restart Finder, the folder shows up normal again.
Basically with two Terminal commands:
rm -f .DS_Store
killall Finder
Do not worry, Finder will just respawn.
If you delete the hidden .DS_Store file from the location the folder is in, not from the affected folder itself and then restart Finder, the folder shows up normal again.
Basically with two Terminal commands:
rm -f .DS_Store
killall Finder
Do not worry, Finder will just respawn.
Oh nice! For those who prefer to not use Terminal, just use command-shift-period to toggle show hidden files, delete .DS_Store from the parent folder, then click the Apple menu (top left of menu bar) then Force Quit, then click on Finder and then Relaunch
JadenQuinn
macrumors newbie
Nonono.. the only reason that works is because you’re restarting Finder. Whatever is happening, it’s only memory resident, it’s not the DS_Stores. You can prove this yourself by simply force quitting Finder. You can also eject all network volumes, and everything will go back to normal even without a Finder restart.