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mstg Author

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All my system icons dissapeared (finder, menu bar, preferences)

All my system icons dissapeared from at least:

- menu bar

- finder

- preferences

Icons from other software still are visible.

The "Space" for the icons is still reserved and clickable.

All other User Accounts are still working as intended.

I think it occures since today.

Did not made any changes, but if I remember right there was a small OSX Update yesterday,

that I executed today or yesterday night.

But I dont remember the content.

I tried to:

- restart

- log out

- started with cmd + r and used disk utilities to repair the disk (no problems)

- used onyx to repair preferences, user rights, plist

- manually deleted plist for finder, dock, systemui

- killall for dock, finder, systemui

Any help is appreciated.

At first the spotlight service just worked right (it tried to initialize new after repair tries),

but now spotlight icon is completely dissapeared and the cmd + space does nothing.

regards

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 28, 2012 5:00 AM

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macjack

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Posted on Nov 28, 2012 5:03 AM

mstg wrote:

- used onyx to repair preferences, user rights, plist

Did you clear LaunchServices cache also?

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macjack

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Nov 29, 2012 6:31 AM in response to mstg

I think the problem is that the screenshots are in .png format, convert (save as) to jpeg in Preview.

EDIT: You got it! Glad to hear the reinstall sorted it 🙂

mstg Author

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Nov 29, 2012 6:32 AM in response to macjack

Now I used Tinkertool to set Screenshots to jpg jfif

drdocument

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Nov 29, 2012 6:33 AM in response to mstg

Thanks. The complete image now appears for me.

My screenshots are also .png by default.

mstg Author

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Nov 29, 2012 6:55 AM in response to macjack

Jeah, thx! 🙂

mstg Author

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Dec 14, 2012 1:00 AM in response to mstg

Now it happened again.

What I did was: using onyx and tinkertool and set some settings.

I try to find out the exact setting now.

mstg Author

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Dec 14, 2012 1:02 AM in response to mstg

Okey Tinkertool I only changed screenshot fromat from jpg to jpg 2000.

With Onyx I only used the Parameter tab.

mstg Author

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Dec 14, 2012 1:07 AM in response to mstg

Setting all tabs back to "standard" did not help.

So I install mountain lion again now. 😉

mstg Author

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Dec 14, 2012 1:33 AM in response to mstg

Reinstall did it fix again. 🙂

drdocument

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Dec 14, 2012 6:56 AM in response to mstg

Interesting. All your screenshots in this thread are now missing, displaying the question mark icon in the center.

I wondered if it might be a problem with my own system, but screenshots in other discussion threads appear as expected.

Hmm.

mstg Author

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Dec 14, 2012 6:59 AM in response to drdocument

the last "tinkertool settings changed - screenshot" too?

mstg Author

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Jan 14, 2013 4:53 AM in response to drdocument

Here you are:

Oh, but btw. I have the error again (5th time now) ...

And now I can say that it really happens every time after the last update.

mstg Author

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Jan 14, 2013 4:54 AM in response to mstg

I ve read that some could fix the error with restarting in safe mode.

But if I restart in safe mode the macbook hangs up at about 30-40% and does not change anything.

Is that normal? How long should it take to restart in safe mode?

I tried about 20 minutes I think ...

Jan 14, 2013 5:28 AM in response to mstg

There is another thread along simlar lines. here

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4498102?answerId=20828586022#20828586022&ac_cid=tw123456#20828586

It appears to be a bug which came with 10.8.2 graphic update.

Certain macs upon awakening from hibernation mode fail to disaply icons (system wide) specifically the menu bar, but in my experience all over the finder screens in all apps.

re-starting in safe mode (reboot holding down shift) does resolve this, but is not an option for those who enabled filevault.

mstg Author

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Jan 14, 2013 5:31 AM in response to harvey pekar

I think filevault is disabled,

but I cannot boot into safe mode.

It hangs at about 30%.

Feb 16, 2013 5:25 AM in response to mstg

I think i've sorted it, worked for me anyway.

went to sys prefs - Users & Groups - unlocked the padlock and clicked on my account.

hit the login items tab whch had a load of old log in things I no longer needed.

I deleted them and left Dropbox, ituneshelper (???) and Suitcase which I use for my fonts.

restared and all back to normal for now

All my system icons dissapeared (finder, menu bar, preferences)