Purple Finder Folder

That is odd looking. And there are no other problems that you've noticed in addition to this? What method or program did you use to make the customized icons?

Regards,
Steve M.

That's super odd! Weird!

Try these things (in system preferences, dock) change where the dock is (left or right). What happens?

What if you check automatically show/hide dock. What happens? (or uncheck it if its already checked)

Change the dock size and play around with other stuff in that preference pain and see if that makes a difference... does anything change.

Does anything change when you click on finder? What about after restarting?

Lastly, if you make a guest account (don't do this if you are running 10.6.0 or 10.6.1) - but its safe on 10.5.anything 10.6.2 and 10.6.3) in system prefs - accounts, is the finder icon still like that?

Sorry for such a long list, that's all I can think of...

Just copying and pasting icons like you did should not have caused any problems. Not sure what to suggest.

Regards,
Steve M.

OOPS I just noticed that you have 10.6.3, so go ahead and try the guest user thing. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with icon changing.

Out of curiosity, go to HD/System/Library/Core Services/Finder app and see if a custom icon ended up there. Get info and see if purple icon is there and are you able to cut it from edit menu.

RM

Not related to your problem admittedly, but form where did you get your desktop pic?

MadcapLuna wrote:
Gumsie
Desktop is from deviantart.com. It's a photo of Tatra Mountains in Poland =)

Many thanks.

Gorgeous hey?

It's a stunning landscape.

I have a similar glitch appeared on 10.6.3.

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Playing with dock prefs makes no difference. The resources in the library>core services>finder (package contents)>resources>finder icons contains five differently sized but apparently standard finder icons. No line above. 😟

There is someone else with this issue over in macosxhints here
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=108083

I don't have a vanilla system but I am fairly restrained when it comes to lots of 'haxies' and system wide customisation. I will try the guest account thing but better post this first.

P.S. Logging into a guest account fixes it despite it having access to same apps.

Back in ny account I removed and turned off a couple of recent system additions like DivX and Rapport but no impact.

Much better image here


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Macosnoob over in macosxhints suggested the following which sorted the issue

So, the Dock works as expected in another account? That fact suggests Dock.app itself has not been directly altered. (There are ways to change the indicator by modifying the contents of Dock.app, but if you don't recall making such a modification and a different account's Dock works properly, Dock.app must be good.) Try deleting the Dock's preferences in the problem account: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist. You'll also need to open Terminal and enter

killall Dock

to relaunch the Dock from the new system-generated plist.