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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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Mar 14, 2013 12:50 AM in response to crushdeluxe

There seems to be a solution: its called "applejack"

look over to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4498102?start=60&tstart=0

May 2, 2013 7:25 AM in response to tutenchamun

I have the same problem: Finder, preferences, Safari and Mail do not dispay the menu icons.
I've tried everything listed in this thread, but nothing works. I never had the problem dissappear (others only have it after hibernation/sleep IIRC). Luckily, I've memorized all the buttons throughout the years...
My rMBP came with a clean install of ML, btw.

Next to this issue, I have the slow shutdown bug, Mail sometimes quitting on my for no apparent reason, Aperture funkyness (pink and scrambled (or no) previews and main previews dissappear when making adjustments such as rotate or crop), and graphic glitches after sleep mode (white/green/purple specked screen). Cleaning the Safari cache resolves the slow shutdown bug, but the missing icons bug remains.

Mar 23, 2014 12:15 AM in response to SimonDhaenens

I had this problem too. Button icons on Finder and some on System Preferences disappeared. I tried some things like Onyx but I did not want to lose all my customizations.

I tried booting in safe mode, but it had no effect. Then I downloaded applejack, and it worked.

System: Macbook Pro 3,1 running Mavericks (10.9.2).

Install applejack. Restart the computer in single-user mode (hold Command-S on boot).

When you get the command prompt, type applejack then enter. Do not run in auto mode.

Tell it to fix preferences. After it is done fixing system preferences, it will ask if you want to fix user preferences. Tell it yes. Enter your username. If it says it cannot find the username, type in the path to your user home directory: /Users/<username>

That was it. It said it found two corrupt user preference files belonging to apps. I don't know what those might have had to do with Finder, but I rebooted and the problem was fixed.

if that doesn't work, you might try running it again in auto mode ("applejack auto") and see if that helps.

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