Blank Safari .webloc file icons after Catalina

Immediately after Catalina upgrade, all my .webloc icons are blank and generic. They still open in Safari fine, they just look like generic white documents.

I tried clearing all caches with Onyx (did nothing) and then I turned off SIP and manually cleared the Icon Services stuff via Terminal (also did nothing.) Anyone have any other suggestions?

iMac 27", macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 31, 2019 3:59 PM

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