When I create an alias to a desktop folder its icon is of lower resolution than original.
Even when I copy and paste from the respective get infos I get the same result. Any ideas?
Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Try running this program. It will show 3rd party applications that might be causing the problem.
Etrecheck – System Information
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
Etrecheck did not notice anything. A new user account seems ok. I looked at the resources in CoreTypes.bundle and the corresponding folder icons are fine.
So:
why are some folder icons fine and other are fuzzy?
It doesn't matter if it is an alias or not.
Sometimes newly downloaded applications are fuzzy.
copying a good folder icon to a fuzzy folder icon in get info does not fix the problem.
Is there a way to force the os to reinstall the foldericons for all folder? Deleteing com.apple.finder.plist sometimes helps sometimes not.Reinstalling the os over the existing os does not help even if you delete coretypes.bundle befor reinstalling.
I am still struggling with this. Anyone have any additional ideas?
Reinstall OSX.
I did this with no benefit.
I would get a new computer.
Neal Tobochnik wrote:
I did this with no benefit.
No you didn't, you just slapped a new coat of OSX over the mess you made.
Erase the hard drive and reinstall. Don't play with 3rd party frippery in future.
I think you people are getting a bit unfriendly and unfair. How do you expect to learn from fixing these types of problems? So we should never use third party apps? The computer is a hobby for me as well as a workhorse.
So lets review what I have done.
Reinstalled Mac OS.
Removed all login items
deleted com.apple.finder.plist
rebuilt the launch services data base
deleted the .ds restore files
repaired permissions
Cleared out all startup items folders.
Zapped the PRAM.
I have multiple hd on my Mac Pro. HD1 is the one with the problems.
I did a clean install of 10.8.4 on another HD called HD2.
I copied over the System extensions folder and the coretypes.bundle folder from HD2 to HD1. Restarted and things look fine. However as soon as I create a new alias or logout and login the problem reappears.
What does work is:
Using a different user account.
Booting in safe mode.
No-one is being unfair, I am telling you the proper way of fixing the mess. If you don't want to then you are the one being unfair to yourself. And please remember that you voluntarily made this mess.
You've been futzing with this for a month, how much more time are you willing to invest.
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Erase your drive and reinstall.
I have over 500 apps installed including utilities. If I use migration assistant woun't I just be copying problems over to the clean install drive?
Is there anyone out there who truly understands how OS X works when creating and using folder icons? I want to minimise problems in the future, but, at the same time, try new software.
Neal Tobochnik wrote:
I have over 500 apps installed including utilities. If I use migration assistant woun't I just be copying problems over to the clean install drive?
Probably, that is why I did not suggest using it.
Is there anyone out there who truly understands how OS X works when creating and using folder icons? I want to minimise problems in the future, but, at the same time, try new software.
Ask the vendor of the hack for help in returning OSX to how it was before their software borked it.
OK. I have 3 hds in my MacPro. I erased one of them and did a clean install. Problem persists! On the 3rd disk I have Snow Leopard. So far it has no problems.
Is this disk the one with the problem or just some other disk?
A clean install on another disk that has worked for a short time really doesn't mean much.
I have no further ideas except (as i said before) erase the borked installation and do a clean install on that disk, or ask whoever you got this hack from how to fix the mess it made.
This is another disk. If this disk is also having the same problem, which it is, then perhaps this is a 10.8 bug.
I have checked out the system memory and it seems fine.
It won't help you to blame Apple, you did this, why won't you turn to the developer of the software that caused the issue? they are the only ones likely to know what to do.
Why didn't you make a clone before you started with the hacks, then you could have restored it.
I have no further suggestions, hopefully someone else may.
alias desktop folder icon lower resolution than original
