Blurry/pixelated icons at random in Finder windows

just wanted to add, here in this 2 year old thread that I've visited and posted in quite often, that after upgrading to Lion that the old blurry/pixelated icon issue has once again popped up in Lion for myself .... though I have to admit that it happens much less frequently than it did in Snow ... as in less than 1/2 the amount than it did in SL .... still stinks none the less 😟

though I hate my new problem that Lion introduced ... which is view options not sticking, but thats OT

I've noticed that also. Computer seems to run longer before the issue surfaces.

Here, try this: http://bit.ly/nsUFw7

I just created it today. It should flush the icon cache and restart Finder/Dock for you.

Run it any time you get pixelated icons. I think I've worked out most of the bugs, but don't hesitate to contact me! (Click "Contact me!" at the bottom of the link I provided.)

😀

--KAN

is this for Snow Leopard only?

It's worth a shot. This one would save you from logging out it seems. Course now that I want to try this out, the icons won't blur for me in Lion. LOL

Before the recent Lion update (10.7.1), I had been up for just over 15 days and no blurry icon issues at all. I really think they may just have fixed it. It's not fair that in order to fix this problem, people need to upgrade to Lion. Apple really should fix Snow Leopard. Assuming that doing a clean install of Snow Leopard doesn't fix the issue.

Here's hoping that we don't see the blurry icon issue ever again!

(Edit: RE: maulrat1967)

Are you still having this issue in Lion (assuming you are running Lion)?

Unless the icon cache was moved from /var/folders/*, it should theoretically work with Lion.

Unfortunately, I will likely soon be upgrading to Lion, so I'm not sure how I will provide support for this... Perhaps a virtual installation of SL?

--KAN 😀

(Edit: RE: VesperDEM)

Very glad to hear this! I was hoping it was fixed in Lion; even though this doesn't completely confirm it, it does seem likely that it was fixed. As I posted previously, if you do have any problems, this should theoretically correct it. Good luck!

--KAN 😀

Unfortunately, only Lion is allowed to virtualize. So testing Snow Leopard installations won't work under Parallels/VMWare.

You could get an external drive, use SuperDuper! to make a bootable backup of your Snow Leopard install before upgrading to Lion. I still have my backup and can boot up into Snow Leopard when ever I want. It's a little slow, but for what it would be needed for, it might be worth considering.

Really? That's unfortunate!

There's some talk that it can be done illegitimately with VirtualBox 4.1.

Not that I would do that or anything...

--KAN 😀

the blurry icon issue continues in Lion for myself but it happens at a much less frequent rate than it did in SL ... but it still happens none-the-less .... and no your prog/automater workflow does not work in Lion ... that could be because some Automator commands have changed (which they have) or that the icon caches that your script points to have moved

Just out of curiousity, did you do a clean install of Lion or update over the top of your Snow Leopard installation?

maulrat1967 wrote:

the blurry icon issue continues in Lion for myself but it happens at a much less frequent rate than it did in SL ... but it still happens none-the-less .... and no your prog/automater workflow does not work in Lion ... that could be because some Automator commands have changed (which they have) or that the icon caches that your script points to have moved

That's pretty dissapointing. 😟

Out of curiosity, would one of you with Lion mind running this in Terminal for me?

sudo find /var/folders -name *thumbnailcache*

...and if it returns "find: /var/folders: No such file or directory", please post the results of "sudo ls /var/" here.

🙂

Hadn't heard about the changes to Automator though. I'll have to debug it again for Lion once I install it.

--KAN 😀

The issue I have in Lion is that it keeps looking for a Growl action ( Growl action not found )

Like Maulrat says though, at least not as much of a problem in Lion ... Logging in and out solves it easily

Sorry, I forgot that not everyone has Growl. Duh. Stupid mistake...

Anyway, I've updated the page (http://bit.ly/nsUFw7) to include a non-Growl version.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

--KAN 😀