Home Folder Icon gone

Something's not right in your /System/Library. That would give me enough concern to re-install.

I assume you have a recent backup, or make one now.

You can use Lion Recovery to restore your OS while keeping all your settings and data intact.

First run Disk Utility > Repair Disk. If problems are found run it repeatedly until it reports "No problems found"

This should solve the issue in your /System/Library.

I'm not sure if you can find the actual icon on your hard disk or not? If you can, just open that file in preview, do 'command-a' (select all) and then 'command-c' (copy to the clipboard.

Click on your (iconless) Home folder, and press 'command-i' (or control-click 'get info').

See the small folder in the very top left of the 'get info' window. Click it once, it should be surrounded by a blue border. Now hit 'command-v' to past the home folder icon on the clipboard in place.

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If you don't have the icon, go to

 > System Preferences > Users & Groups

Click the '+' sign to make a new account. Go to the home folder of that account and do 'get info'. Click on the tiny icon in the left, do 'command-c' (copy). Open Preview. In Preview menu, choose 'New from clipboard'. Save the file to your 'shared' folder (Hard disk > Users > Shared). Go back to your own account, open the preview file and do the first part of the procedure I gave you above (i.e., command-a, command-c, go to your home folder, 'get info', click the icon to get the blue border and hit command-v).

Go to: /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle (right-click on this to "Show package contents" then )/Contents/Resources/HomeFolderIcon

Now, command-i on that and drag the large image of the house to your desktop.

Open with Preview, then copy and paste to the small icon at the top left in the Get Info window of your missing Home folder.

Alternatively, as there may be other icon corruption launch Terminal and copy/paste...

Then press return. Wait until terminal returns to the command line. Quit Terminal. After that, log out and back in or restart. Let us know

If you are up to it, it's my preference. Do you have the Lion Installer saved? If not better go up to the MAS and download another one now and save it off to some other media. Once you erase you will no longer have your Recovery option.

Yes that is the new look in Lion.

You can choose to put the color back with a little effort.

A SIMBL plug-in that helps you bring some color in Mac OS X Lion, see the reference:

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/ColorfulSidebar.shtml

Click the SIMBL to download the SIMBL 0.9.9

This works beautifully, the only caeat is after a reboot, you will have to relaunch Finder to reinsate the color icons.

Finder icon on desktop Dock>control+option keys>Relaunch

So when you follow the path at the bottom of my Finder window you do not see the HomeFolderIcon in the Resources folder? Or is it listed but showing as a regular folder?

Gone in the sidebar in Finder?

If so,

Finder => Preferences

Click on Sidebar

Check if your home folder is selected, if not, select it

Kind regards,

emeu1