Stickies is broken, please help...

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Stickies is broken, please help...

I've mistakenly replaced info.plist in the stickies.app package and now Stickies wont open and the icon has been replaced with something different (see below).

Is there a way to repair Stickes or re-install it without having to reinstall Mountain Lion?

This is the content of the file I replaced info.plist with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<dict>

<key>CFBundleName</key>

<string>Stickies</string>

</dict>

</plist>

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 31, 2013 7:59 AM

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Answer 1

Eric Root

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Jan 31, 2013 1:44 PM in response to SM73i

If you have a backup, have you tried to restore the .plist?

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Answer 2

SM73i Author

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Feb 1, 2013 4:08 AM in response to Eric Root

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately not, I had one until about 4 weeks ago - I have recently reorganised my NAS set up and as I had never needed to call on TimeMachine, I didnt worry about it being offline for a while. I shoulda known! Any other options you can think of?

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Eric Root

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Feb 1, 2013 10:29 AM in response to SM73i

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<dict>

<key>BuildMachineOSBuild</key>

<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>

<string>English</string>

<key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleTypeName</key>

<string>StickieDocument</string>

<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>

<string>Editor</string>

<key>NSDocumentClass</key>

<string>StickiesDocument</string>

</dict>

</array>

<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>

<string>Stickies</string>

<key>CFBundleHelpBookFolder</key>

<string>Stickies.help</string>

<key>CFBundleHelpBookName</key>

<string>com.apple.Stickies.help</string>

<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>

<string>Stickies.icns</string>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.Stickies</string>

<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>

<key>CFBundleName</key>

<string>Stickies</string>

<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>

<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>

<key>CFBundleSignature</key>

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<key>DTCompiler</key>

<key>DTPlatformBuild</key>

<key>DTPlatformVersion</key>

<key>DTSDKBuild</key>

<key>DTSDKName</key>

<key>DTXcode</key>

<key>DTXcodeBuild</key>

<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>

<string>public.app-category.productivity</string>

<key>LSHasLocalizedDisplayName</key>

<true/>

<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>

<key>NSMainNibFile</key>

<string>MainMenu</string>

<key>NSPrincipalClass</key>

<string>NSApplication</string>

<key>NSServices</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>NSExecutable</key>

<string>Stickies</string>

<key>NSKeyEquivalent</key>

<dict>

<key>default</key>

</dict>

<key>NSMenuItem</key>

<dict>

<key>default</key>

<string>Make Sticky</string>

</dict>

<key>NSMessage</key>

<string>makeStickyFromTextService</string>

<key>NSPortName</key>

<string>Stickies</string>

<key>NSSendTypes</key>

<array>

<string>NSStringPboardType</string>

<string>NSRTFPboardType</string>

<string>NSRTFDPboardType</string>

</array>

</dict>

</array>

<key>NSSupportsSuddenTermination</key>

</dict>

</plist>

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Answer 4

Eric Root

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Feb 1, 2013 10:31 AM in response to SM73i

I have no idea if this will work, but above is the info.plist from Stickies. Maybe you can copy it and put it in place.

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Answer 5

SM73i Author

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Feb 2, 2013 5:54 PM in response to Eric Root

You complete and utter legend!

This is what I had to do:

1. Copied the code into new text file \\\

2. Replaced:

<key>BuildMachineOSBuild</key>

<string>12A251</string> with the string from my machine

3. Save as info.plist on desktop (I couldnt save to the package)

4. Copy/paste the file into the package replacing old info.plist

5. Repaired disk permissions

6. Restarted

All ok although I've still got a dogdy icon but my stickies open and are all still there. Phew!

Cheers again 🙂

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Answer 6

Eric Root

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Feb 3, 2013 10:26 AM in response to SM73i

If you go to the web page below and then go to the bottom of the page, you can download a stickies icon to replace the generic version if you want to. When I clicked on the download, it opened in Preview, and I was able to copy one and paste it into a "Get Info" for a folder.

http://www.softicons.com/free-icons/object-icons/stickies-icons-by-mike-demetrio u/stickie-3-icon

Not perfect.

Now about a backup...............😁😉

If you mark this as "Solved", it will appear in the "More Like This" box (top right) and maybe it can help someone else.

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