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Strange Icon Symbol on Application Folder (Pic Included)

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Ony

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Mar 5, 2010
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Hello sirs,

I just bought a macbook pro 15" and I noticed something strange. I installed Skype application and the icon is strange and different on my dock application folder. Why does it not show Skype's normal icon? Check pic for more details.


Thanks in advance,


Anthony

 
That's because it's a newly-added app.
  1. Drag your Applications folder off your Dock and let go. It will disappear.
  2. Then go to Finder and drag the Applications folder back to the Dock.
  3. When you first drag the App folder to the dock, it will show the icon for Address Book, which is the first app in the folder.
  4. To make it look like a folder again, right-click on the Applications folder on your Dock and select "Display As" > Folder
 
Open Skype and it should go away.

If not, try to repair permissions via Disk Utility.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/843548/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/861752/


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spinnerlys said:
Open Skype and it should go away.

If not, try to repair permissions via Disk Utility.
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Even if you open Skype, it won't go away. Permissions aren't the issue. The instructions I showed will work every time. Another option is to use Terminal to kill the Dock, but I don't recommend Terminal solutions to people who are new to Mac.
 
GGJstudios said:
Even if you open Skype, it won't go away. Permissions aren't the issue. The instructions I showed will work every time. Another option is to use Terminal to kill the Dock, but I don't recommend Terminal solutions to people who are new to Mac.
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It worked for me, the opening part at least.

But your hint seems logical too.
 
I opened the app but still the sign does not go away!
 
I don't get why you're talking about the dock. All he has to do is simply click on Skype and the icon will fix itself, just like spinnerlys wrote.

Edit: I guess not after seeing the OP's response. Anyway, what I said and he said have always worked for me.
 
GGJstudios said:
That's because it's a newly-added app. Drag your Applications folder off your Dock and let go. It will disappear. Then go to Finder and drag the Applications folder back to the Dock. When you first drag the App folder to the dock, it will show the icon for Address Book, which is the first app in the folder. To make it look like a folder again, right-click on the Applications folder on your Dock and select "Display As" > Folder
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No need for all of that. just log out and log back in.
 
bigjnyc said:
No need for all of that. just log out and log back in.
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.... which has the same effect as killing the Dock in Terminal. However, the steps I suggested take less than 20 seconds and don't require restarting apps, losing open web pages, etc. That's why I didn't recommend logging out/in or restarting.
 
GGJstudios said:
.... which has the same effect as killing the Dock in Terminal. However, the steps I suggested take less than 20 seconds and don't require restarting apps, losing open web pages, etc. That's why I didn't recommend logging out/in or restarting.
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So, why do you think this happened to the OP? I've had that icon with the slash and it gets fixed everytime I open the app.
 
-aggie- said:
So, why do you think this happened to the OP? I've had that icon with the slash and it gets fixed everytime I open the app.
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I've never had it go away, no matter how many times I launch the app, until the folder on the Dock is refreshed, either through the steps I posted, or through Terminal, or logging out/in or restarting. It's Mac OS X letting you know this app wasn't there before, I assume as a security feature. I don't know how you got it to change, simply by launching the app. Never works that way for me.
 
It's just normal for brand new apps from the internet. Once you open it and the system knows that your app has permission to run and will run on your computer, it will use the real icon. In stacks it doesn't always update. I don't know why. Restarting the dock will fix it, or you can just leave it until the next time you start up your computer. It's not a problem, don't worry about it.
 
GGJstudios said:
I've never had it go away, no matter how many times I launch the app, until the folder on the Dock is refreshed, either through the steps I posted, or through Terminal, or logging out/in or restarting. It's Mac OS X letting you know this app wasn't there before, I assume as a security feature. I don't know how you got it to change, simply by launching the app. Never works that way for me.
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When you open an app you've never used before, do you get a message asking if you want to open this app from the internet (or something to that affect)?
 
-aggie- said:
When you open an app you've never used before, do you get a message asking if you want to open this app from the internet (or something to that affect)?
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Yes. Ainze is right. After launching the app, the correct icon shows in the Applications folder in Finder, but the App folder on the Dock is not refreshed automatically.

Here's what happens:

1. I download and install a new app. The icon in the Application folder in Finder is correct, but the icon in the Applications folder on the Dock is the "temporary" icon.
1.jpg​
(I have noticed that, in some cases, if I've installed and removed the app before, the proper icon shows up as soon as I re-install it.)​

2. Launch the application, and I get this message:
4.jpg​
3. Even with the application launched multiple times, the icon in the Dock's Application folder remains the same:
2.jpg​
4. Either by using the steps I posted earlier, or by launching Terminal and entering "killall Dock", or by logging out/in, or by using the TinkerTool app I used in this illustration to Relaunch the Dock, the Dock Application folder gets refreshed:
3.jpg​
 
The problem is that when the Application is placed in /Applications, it automatically gets tagged with com.apple.quarantine this prevents the system from grabbing any information from that file, including the icon which is of course inside the app.

Even after stripping com.apple.quarantine manually or by opening the application, the blocked icon still shows in the Dock since it is loading in cache. You have to force update by, as GGJ stated, removing the folder and adding it to the dock again. Or killing the Dock process.

A folder action could easily fix this issue, here is the workflow:

On add items to /Applications
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine from items
killall Dock
 
GGJstudios said:
That's because it's a newly-added app.
  1. Drag your Applications folder off your Dock and let go. It will disappear.
  2. Then go to Finder and drag the Applications folder back to the Dock.
  3. When you first drag the App folder to the dock, it will show the icon for Address Book, which is the first app in the folder.
  4. To make it look like a folder again, right-click on the Applications folder on your Dock and select "Display As" > Folder
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Thanks GGStudios! Had the same issue. Which I used MRoogle to look for the solution. Many thanks!
 
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