Mavericks Launchpad, missing icons

Hi,

My directory under "Application Support" does not show any icon or folder called "Dock"

"~/Library/Application Support/Dock"

What other option do I have to recover lost icons under Launchpad?

Regards,

Andrew

Thanks. This worked fine for me, iMac with 10.9.1

Hi Eye To Eye,

Please go into Terminal (launch it from the LaunchPad tool), and then type in Terminal, click to run...

Once there, just type in the command (cd) and then ENTER, to take you into your home directory

From there you can do (pwd) and then ENTER to show your directory location, it should be something like (/Users/Heider), if you are not there, then try to go manually into your Users directory by doing (cd /Users) and then list them up by doing (ls -ltra) and then Enter, you should you user there (example: MyUserName). If you see it, then goto into it's directory by doing (cd MyUserName) and then Enter.

Now, from that location, you should be able to (cd) into the location by doing:

cd "Library/Application Support/Dock"

(notice there is no ~/ in the above (cd) command.

If you after that, you still can't find it, then your system might have some corruption in the file-system, even though the solution can be easy by just creating the folder there manually by doing (mkdir Dock), however, I recommend doing a disk-health-check before creating any items on the filesystem. This way any lost-chains would be salvaged and you won't risk your HD by causing more damage.

I hope this helps.

Kind Regards
Heider Sati

Thanks!! Saved my Life!!!

Idummi3 wrote:

Go to terminal and copy and paste this ---> mv ~/L*/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db ~/Desktop; killall Dock; exit

This should do the trick

THIS ^^^^^^

Worked like a charm!

Thanks Idummi3!!

Worked very well thanks

OMG! This saved me too. works great! Thanks!!

worked like a charm..

worked like a chram

Thank you!! This problem will back again??

Hello Gentelmen, I have a problem. After I installed the update of 10.9.2, I have no more applications' Icons assigned to any file. I mean, movie files don't take VLC icon as many other applications. Any clue?

Hi,

Did you by any change install Cleanmymac?

The missing Icon issue can happen if you happen to hv the older version of Cleanmymac. Try to upgrade to the latest version and you won't face this issue again.

Thank you Heider, appreciate your help.

I followed your instruction, but it didn't work for me.

I installed the latest version of Cleanmymac and got my issue resolved.

Regards,

Andrew

Hello Eye to Eye,

No, I didn't install Cleanmymac and I don't use it. so any clue?