After updating to OS X 10.10 many of the icons on my Desktop are now plain white. Repairing permissions did not help. Is there a remedy for this?
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White icons on Desktop
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This AppleScript to rebuild the Launch Services database may be of some help to you:
Code:
-- Rebuild Launch Services DB
-- BP2013
-- Modified from:
-- Adam Bell 2013
-- http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=40534
say "begin"
set flushLaunchSvcDB to "/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user"
do shell script flushLaunchSvcDB
delay 1
do shell script "killall Finder"
say "done"
I'm on 10.10.2 and am still having the issue. I haven't tried the script though (I didn't even know that the issue was widespread until I found this thread).
Edit: It seems to mainly (only?) affect Safari icons (.webloc files).
Are Application icons and Preview white? The original bug was application icons showed as blank white, preview worked fine.
Preview icons are fine. When you say application icons, do you mean aliases, or actually copying the .app bundles onto the desktop (both of which seem OK at this end), or something else?
It's possible that we're talking about two different issues here; this thread seems to cover the same symptoms that I'm having.
The application's icon is used for aliases, files and the application itself.
Bugs not fixed I just checked. Funny thing is if you display an icon size over 144x144 in the Finder they appear.
I know I checked this at 10.10.2 ship, they must get corrupted. Another thing I noticed its not every application that has this problem, for example on my machine TextWrangler files look fine but Office 2011 doesn't.
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I'd misunderstood what you meant by application icons but I see what you mean now. It does seem to be the same problem; it's just that .weblocs are the only non-previewable files that I currently have on my desktop. If I drop others on there then they work at first, but I suspect that I'll lose the icons again at some point in the future.
FYI - I did a clean install of 10.10.2 (14C109) last night for various reasons. I Time Machine restored only user files, and installed Applications clean also. The icon bug is resolved now.
Prior, this Mac had run 10.10.1 and the 10.10.2 Betas, all upgrades.
I have never felt the need to clean install the Mac OS, looks like things have changed, or it could be from the Betas.
I've never had the betas; this was a clean install of 10.10.1 (and the problem happened there too), upgraded to 10.10.2. It's therefore not due to the upgrade process.