After upgrade(from snow leopard), user picture list have no items. (Users & Groups)

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SY Kim Author

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After upgrade(from snow leopard), user picture list have no items. (Users & Groups)

Finally, I got the solution.

The key is to delete every '.DS_Store' files in the directory '/Library/User Pictures/'.

Open Terminal application and follow these.

1. Chagne directory by command below :

cd '/Library/User Pictures'

2. Listing all files including hiddens in the directory by command below :

ls -al

3. If there is a .DS_Store file. Remove the file by command below :

sudo rm .DS_Store

(It need user password for execute)

Then, it'll show every pictures in 'Users & Groups' control panel.

Posted on Sep 10, 2012 6:42 AM

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SY Kim Author

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Sep 10, 2012 10:04 PM in response to SY Kim

Additionally

You have to delete '.DS_Store' file within sub directories of '/Library/User Pictures'.

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Answer 2

Nov 17, 2012 3:41 PM in response to SY Kim

Also, let it be known that a reboot was required for the fix to take effect. Thanks for the fix SY Kim!

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Jan 3, 2013 1:03 PM in response to SY Kim

Thank you 🙂

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Jun 7, 2013 7:52 AM in response to SY Kim

The delete .DS_Store does not always work. It had no effect for me. And in my case no folder structure changed or anything else -it simply went bad. The defect occurred in an image so every computer imaged had the problem. Trying to resolve it by migrating the standard created users from the the defective image to a new image produced the same problem in any computer receiving the users. Diskwarrior pronounced everything clean. Permissions fine, no ACL problems. Just a really annoying problem. After trying all of the solutions provided on the web to no avail and asking several Apple people (who did not even know about the problem) I logged in as root and trashed the old user icon images file then copied the folder from a ML factory disk image. Worked. And so it goes.

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