10.7.4 updater left invisible dock url icons

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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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Answer 1

May 13, 2012 2:06 PM in response to baltwo

I just took it from 7.3 CoreServies/Dock package and it works... And applied the Terminal command you posted: sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/url.png

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baltwo

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May 13, 2012 2:19 PM in response to David M Brewer

Just another route. Glad it fixed your issue.

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May 14, 2012 12:49 PM in response to Larry Nolan

Here's the easiest way to fix it, which worked for me: 😀

Find an icon you want to use, the original or another (I found mine free online).
Save the icon as url.png - make sure it's formatted correctly!
Go to HD/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/url.png
url.png was missing from my resources folder so I dragged and dropped the new url.png into the folder and restarted my iMac.
Open a web browser and drag a favicon to the the dock as a link and your icon should show up...mine did!

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bk32818

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May 17, 2012 1:18 AM in response to pennylorraine

Thank you pennylorraine, tried your method, worked straight away.😍

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Gilles

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May 22, 2012 11:46 PM in response to bk32818

Well before trying this, I was wondering what will happen if Apple includes this fix in a next update. Will it cause any trouble ?

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Larry Nolan Author

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May 23, 2012 6:33 AM in response to Gilles

I would doubt it would cause a problem as all that is being done is to add a icon image to the directory and change its permissions. There's no gurantee that Apple will get around to fixing this bug for a 10.7.5 release or 10.8.

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Jun 1, 2012 2:42 PM in response to Larry Nolan

It happened to me too! I spent a lot of time until I found this post. Thank you all.

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Larry Nolan Author

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Jun 1, 2012 3:00 PM in response to Carola Clavo

Glad you found a solution. I'm interested now to see if it is still an issue with 10.8 when it is released.

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Jun 12, 2012 8:35 AM in response to Larry Nolan

A million Thanks... Could Not find 'url.png' anywere.. My Original OS disks from a Latest 2009 MBP was it for me, OSX 6...

I used Pacifist and even hit the install button

My Spring just apperaed as if by magic..

I was about to reinitialize my disk with writing zero's which would have been quite a sacrifice...

Probaly Cocktail as I had tried rebuilding those databases.... I had spent Hours before finding this post. Re-Install. and the rest of it as others had done

Many Many thanks!!

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Jun 12, 2012 8:32 AM in response to jimbo60640

Oh Yeah,😍 Hail Larry Nolan!!!!!

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Dedo

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Jul 30, 2012 11:48 AM in response to Larry Nolan

And solved mine, too. Thanks. 🙂

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Answer 12

Aug 18, 2012 3:51 AM in response to Larry Nolan

More thanks for Larry Nolan 😀

😎😎😎

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Apr 18, 2014 7:34 AM in response to leroydouglas

I had the invisible icons in the doc issue, as well as trouble logging into iCloud a day after loading a bunch of applications for work. What leroydouglas posted here worked for me. Everything back to normal. Thanks!

repair problems with incorrect icons in OS X Rebuild LaunchServices Database

Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt paste in the following command in its entirety:

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

Hit the Return/Enter key and let the process run it's course, it will put you back out at the prompt when complete, this can take several minute to complete.

Restart your mac.

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