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Re: Spotlight icons corrupted
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Feb 13, 2009 2:14 PM
in response to: nout72
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Most likely a LaunchServices database going bad. Run this command in the Terminal app (copy & paste the one-liner) and then restart:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
24" iMac 2.8 Core 2 Ext 4 GB RAM/G4 450 MP Gigabit 1.5 GB RAM
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Re: Spotlight icons corrupted
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Feb 14, 2009 1:13 AM
in response to: baltwo
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Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately that didn't work, after 4 searches the icons get screwed up again.
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Re: Spotlight icons corrupted
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Feb 14, 2009 11:06 AM
in response to: nout72
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Then, I'm out of ideas. Good luck.
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Re: Spotlight icons corrupted
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Feb 15, 2009 12:41 AM
in response to: baltwo
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Too bad, but thanks anyway 
Alu iMac 20 inch 2.4 Ghz
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Re: Spotlight icons corrupted
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Feb 15, 2009 10:15 AM
in response to: nout72
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Just wanted to say I have never seen the like before. Two things to try to attempt to isolate the problem--
1. Create a brand new user, log into that user and run some searches and see if the problem occurs there as well.
2. If the new user account does not have the problem, try restarting in Safe Mode (hold down the Shift key when you restart, keep it down until the spinny gear appears) and see if your regular account still has the problem.
If the new user does not have the problem, then there is nothing wrong with OS itself, there is something funky in your regular account. If a Safe boot results in no problem in the regular account then it is likely that a third party something or other is causing a problem.
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Re: Spotlight icons corrupted
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Feb 15, 2009 11:28 AM
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Thanks for the reply, I made another user account, but the problem still exists there, it appears to be system wide.
I however located the problem.
iAntivirus.
Does this icon look familair?
It's the one that sits on top of all the other app icons.
Let's make it smaller, about the same size as in the Spotlight window.
It doesn't mean the spotlight index is infected by a virus, rather infected by iAntivirus, some antivirus programm!
I uninstalled iAntivirus and searched for any file asscociated with it, with the name pctools in it, but the problem still excists.
Woud rebuilding the spotlight index be the solution?
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Re: Spotlight icons corrupted
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Feb 15, 2009 1:25 PM
in response to: nout72
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It is solved!!
It wasn't iAntivirus.
I rebuilt the spotlight index, did a reboot and the problem is gone!
I turns out the icon of the QCDialog.droplet was the cause and I have an idea why, well a hint at best.
I recently had installed Gimp and the updated X11 and while working with it the app froze, activity monitor showed 100% cpu for the quartz vm process.
Right after this I did a search in Spotlight for "quartz", but Spotlight was indexing at that time and crashed.
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Re: Spotlight icons corrupted
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Feb 15, 2009 3:00 PM
in response to: nout72
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Update:
I don't think Gimp and quartz vm have been the cause.
The so-called QCDialog.droplet and another droplet which uses the same icon CocoaDialog.droplet are part of an application called OMCEdit (On My Command).
With this app you can add contextual menu items from a pre-installed list or you can create and edit your own.
I only use two of them: "Send with Mail" and "Set Image as Desktop Picture".
I have used these contextual menu items only a few times and I don't know how these droplets relate to the contextual menu items and how they would relate to the spotlight index.
Out of curiosity I have set a couple of desktop pictures and send files with mail via these contextual menu items and did some spotlight searches and everything is fine (by now), but as soon these annoying icons take over all the other application icons I think I'll uninstall OMCEdit.
And in retrospect, I didn't have to start a thread: rebuilding the spotlight index was a pretty obvious first solution.
What made me doubt from doing this is that I didn't aspect this indexing to be so quick and casual, I thought it would take hours and hours.
Thanks for the help!
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Re: Spotlight icons corrupted
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Mar 17, 2009 9:09 AM
in response to: nout72
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I met the exact same problem. And I installed OMC too. Your reply reminds me that it IS happening after installing OMC. So it can be sure you are right. I'm considering remove the OMC program. But it's really handy to use....
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