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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



User uploaded file


User uploaded file


User uploaded file


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

M

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

Posted on Nov 28, 2012 5:00 AM

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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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Nov 28, 2012 5:12 AM in response to mstg

Do you have a backup? If not, make one.

If resetting Launch Services database doesn't help...


Do you have any non-Apple login items (in Users & Groups prefs), extensions or preference panes, or other non-Apple software which affects the System? If so, uninstall it.


Reset PRAM.


Then reboot into Recovery HD (with Cmd-R) and reinstall Mountain Lion (just normal install, NOT clean install). Then check App Store for updates and apply.


Hope this helps.

Nov 28, 2012 5:37 AM in response to drdocument

drdocument wrote:


Do you have a backup? If not, make one.

I will this evening, dont have one, because the initial setup needed too much time. :/


drdocument wrote:


Do you have any non-Apple login items (in Users & Groups prefs), extensions or preference panes, or other non-Apple software which affects the System? If so, uninstall it.

Not sure if I know which items you mean.

I searched in preferences/user & groups/current user for login objects.

But there wasnt one (I remember before clean up there were about a dozen of login objects).

If I looked into the menu bar there was still menu tab, google, etc.


Now I tried to deinstall all Apps/Prefs/Login Objects through App cleaner:

Menu Bar (login):

- Menu Tab

- Google Tab

- Bamboo Tablet (the icon still apears)


Pref Panes:

- Flash

- MySQL

- SwitchRes

- Bamboo (stil appears)

- DivX


After that I executed the pram reset,

but nothing helped.

Still not working.


I will try to reinstall this evening. 😟

Nov 28, 2012 5:39 AM in response to drdocument

drdocument wrote:


Sorry, but your images are not appearing, only a box with image name and a question mark.

Just be sure all login items are ML-compatible.

Did you migrate from an older Mac or is your MacBook Pro (retina) all new?

If new, what non-Apple software have you installed, if any?

Weird. Thus are normal Apple Screenshots.


Its my normal MacBook Pro Retina 15" that I use since some months.

I did nothing change, except the small update and some days ago an onyx clean up.


I have a huuuuge bunch of non apple software installed.

Most for developing like IDE's, Version Tools like svn, git, several browsers, some games, and so on ...

Nov 28, 2012 6:06 AM in response to mstg

Thanks.

The image viewing problem must be on my machine. Checking on it.


It does seem like the recent update is the most likely suspect, especially if all was okay before the update.


Just checked, and images in posts are still appearing in other threads. Are you adding images with the camera icon in the reply toolbar here? I am pretty sure that is the only way to add an image. I have the following message above the window whenever I click "Reply."

Please add the image directly by clicking Insert Image (camera icon). We cannot accept linked or embedded images.

Nov 28, 2012 6:02 AM in response to macjack

macjack wrote:


What happens in another account, like Guest or create a fresh user account?

All other accounts are working fine.

Even new created accounts. (tried two times)


macjack wrote:


Also have you tried starting in Safe Mode and see if the problem still occurs?

Restart holding the "shift" key.

(Expect it to take longer to start this way because it runs a directory check first.)


I will try this.

Nov 28, 2012 6:15 AM in response to mstg

mstg wrote:


macjack wrote:


What happens in another account, like Guest or create a fresh user account?

All other accounts are working fine.

Even new created accounts. (tried two times)


So, the isssue is only in your own user account. You need to sort it out there. A re-install will not repair anything in your user. Only a clean install would do that and only until you re-installed the offending software(s).

Nov 28, 2012 6:38 AM in response to drdocument

drdocument wrote:


Just checked, and images in posts are still appearing in other threads. I am pretty sure that is the only way to add an image. I have the following message above the window whenever I click "Reply."

Please add the image directly by clicking Insert Image (camera icon). We cannot accept linked or embedded images.

Thats exactly what I did.

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

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