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10.7.4 updater left invisible dock url icons

After running the 10.7.4 combo updater on my10.7.3 iMac, the 5-6 URL icons (the @head key icon) on the right side of my dock have all becom tranparant or invisible. I can still click on them and see the web page title associated with each and they tell Safari the proper url address, but although they take space on the dock you see no icon image!

Repairing disk permissions did nothing. Going to download a new copy of the updater and run it again to see if that helps. Apple support had me delete the dock.plist file but that did not fix the problem as dragging a url from Safari to the dock still results in an invisible but functional icon.

Any ideas?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), iMac 21.5" i5; iPad 32Gb

Posted on May 10, 2012 6:09 PM

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Larry Nolan Author

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May 11, 2012 12:29 PM in response to Michaelfengdayu

Agreed it is strange, though the Apple Support tech I talked to today had the same issue with 10.7.4 on his Mac when I asked him to try creating a new webloc on the dock --> bingo! invisible icon.

I've been updating Mac OS X systems since the 10.2 days and this is the strangest thing. You'd think that the release team must have maifests that check to see that all files that belong in an app's package are actually there and somehow this slipped through or there's an error in some script.

baltwo

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May 11, 2012 12:37 PM in response to Larry Nolan

File a bug reportwith Apple.

Larry Nolan Author

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May 11, 2012 12:41 PM in response to baltwo

I have.

baltwo

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May 11, 2012 12:46 PM in response to Larry Nolan

baltwo

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May 11, 2012 5:09 PM in response to baltwo

BTW, good sleuthing. One thing that should be done to ensure no hiccups. Run this Terminal command to correct the permissions on the png file (usually inherits your permissions when you drag something into those places)—assumes that you're booted into 10.7.4:

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/url.png

Larry Nolan Author

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May 11, 2012 5:33 PM in response to baltwo

baltwo,

thanks very much; it had indeed gotten me as the owner, not it's system that has read&write. Hadn't caused a problem up to this point but who knows if or when it might. Maybe not too likely with an icon but now I shouldn't have to worry.

May 11, 2012 8:40 PM in response to Larry Nolan

Does anyone know where I can get the url icon (png) as mine is now missing. Thanks. d

baltwo

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May 11, 2012 11:08 PM in response to Dennis Moriarty

From an earlier OS version installer. Either SL or Lion pre-10.7.4. Use Pacifist to extract the Dock.app; then, copy it from its Resources folder.

May 12, 2012 11:50 AM in response to Larry Nolan

Thank you very much, it solved my problem too.

May 12, 2012 7:42 PM in response to Larry Nolan

Solved the same issue here on both my Mac Pro 2006 1,1 and my Macbook Pro!!!

Many thanks this worked like a charm. My workaround is no longer needed lol. I had made a links folder on my hard drive and recreated the links in that folder and put the folder on the dock so I could actually see icons, but glad the springy thing is back!

My transition from Snow Lepord to 10.7.4 was a bit rocky to to say the least as I had the issue on my tower of the computer stalling at the grey apple screen till I found the suggestion to do a Comand+R at start up and run disc utility to both repair permissions and repair the hard drive which ever one of those actually fixed it I don't know but it all works now and all systems go this Mac is a happy mac once again!

I will add though it is very odd for an OS update to just randomly delete a commonly used icon and no one on the development team caught this before it was released.

Larry Nolan Author

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May 13, 2012 9:30 AM in response to baltwo

Baltwo, your last recommendation made me look at the combo 10.7.4 installer with Pacifist and indeed the Dock.app in the installer does not have url.png included thus causing the problem with weblocs on the dock not having the @-on-a-spring icon. I've updated my bugreport to Apple to include that information.

May 13, 2012 9:53 AM in response to Larry Nolan

Larry Nolan wrote:

Baltwo, your last recommendation made me look at the combo 10.7.4 installer with Pacifist and indeed the Dock.app in the installer does not have url.png included thus causing the problem with weblocs on the dock not having the @-on-a-spring icon. I've updated my bugreport to Apple to include that information.

You know what is so interesting, my 10.7.4 Combo does not have that url.png either, yet it still works just fine.

Both what is existing on the right side of the dock and any new address I drag down there as a test.

I wonder how to explain that in light of all this???? has it been moved to some other folder perhaps?

baltwo

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May 13, 2012 12:29 PM in response to leroydouglas

Therein lies the mystery.

May 13, 2012 1:10 PM in response to baltwo

I downloaded Lion OSX 10.4 from the MAS and it doesn't have it either. I copied the image from my cloned backup 10.3 to make it work. (Always save your backup till everything works!!!)

baltwo

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May 13, 2012 1:25 PM in response to David M Brewer

Use Pacifist to extract it from the Essentials.pkg contained in the earlier InstallESD dmg file. It's there in the 10.7.3 installer app.

10.7.4 updater left invisible dock url icons