Fuzzy Icons

Seems to be a common problem but I've seen no resolution. It is incredibly annoying. It appears to be a known issue with no published solution.

Same problem here. Finder can't be restarted once i force it to close

HI,

Try deleting this file.

com.apple.finder.plist

/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences.

Drag that file to the Trash, empty the Trash and restart your Mac.







Carolyn 🙂

I'm afraid that is only a temporary solution. It fixes the problem for a short while but the problem resurfaces. It's as though there is a cache somewhere that is allocated a certain amount of HD space ( or maybe even an amount of RAM ) for storing the new 512 pixel icons and once that limit is reached you get the pixelated icons. And, supporting my theory, it seems to happen quicker, the larger you have displayed your icons. This even occurs with dock icons sometimes.

I had been restarting the finder to handle this until I read this post. I tried deleting the plist and restarting my Mac and it did work ... but not any better than simply quitting finder and restarting it.

I have sent a feedback to Apple about this with all my data, it's obviously a bug of some kind.

One additional observation .... if you leave the finder window open, you will notice that about 3 - 5 seconds after you delete the finder plist file, it will regenerate. If you then check your finder prefs you will see that only some of the finder prefs have been reset. So basically, deleting the finder plist will not generate a totally new plist file upon reboot.

So, I think with deleting the plist file and rebooting, it is only the rebooting which is doing anything to help. In support of this finding many in other threads have been saying they are experiencing this issue even on a clean install where no additional apps have been installed.

I have noticed that there are two cache folders in /user/library/caches relating to Quicklook. I am going to try deleting those caches and reboot to see if that helps.

I also have another hunch. If the Quicklook caches don't work, I am going to try NOT using the sider in the finder window, just the slider in View Options .... perhaps there is a glitch in the finder slider that is corrupting something.

One other note. I do use a lot of rar files and zip files ( cbr and cbz to be exact which are nothing more than rar and zip files comprised of jpeg images ) perhaps the way finder generates the thumbnails of these files is what triggers the issue.

So much for those ideas. I deleted the Quicklook caches and did not use the slider and it still went bad after awhile.

But I have noticed that the icons of photos don't seem to do the same thing.

I have tried all of this and and still no go which leads me to wonder why is this marked solved??

THIS QUESTION HAS NOT BEEN ANSWERED UNTIL APPLE FIXES!

After installing Snow Leopard SOME of the default system folder icons show up "fuzzy" (like, "Pictures," "Users," "Movies," etc). Its only some of them and it does not change over time...

I can understand why some of my personal customized icons are "fuzzy," though some are fine, and some disappear -- but I've fiddled with them -- BUT, the system generated ones?!?!?

UNACCEPTABLE! And quite (still) a mystery... Hence, this question is not answered -- please UNanswer it or I will start a new thread...

There is definitely something wrong with the display of icons in Snow Leopard. On my system, some custom icons are fine and others are fuzzy. But for me, the default icon for a .docx file looks like a snowy TV screen. It has no resemblance to what it is supposed to be (it's just a lot of random pixels), and it is really ugly.

I get the same thing occasionally. It seems to happen for me when I change or edit the icons but once it is resolved then I don't have the issue anymore. My solution to fixing it is a simple restart.

Restart of Finder is all you need. I've found also that it happens more often when the system is trying to generate a thumbnail from a RAR or ZIP archive or even a multi-page PDF. Perhaps there is something in the way these files are being processed that corrupts something.

I'm having the SAME problem... only the icons show up fine in Finder windows, but fuzzy everywhere else.

Here's the finder window:



But here's the stacks window:



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If you let it go longer it will affect the finder window also, especially when you use the slider